Nova Britannia, or, Our new Canadian Dominion foreshadowed: Being a series of lectures, speeches and addresses by the Hon. Alexander Morris, P.C., D.C.L., late lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, the North-West Territories and Keewatin

Nova Britannia, or, Our new Canadian Dominion foreshadowed: Being a series of lectures, speeches and addresses by the Hon. Alexander Morris, P.C., D.C.L., late lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, the North-West Territories and Keewatin

Author: Morris, Alexander, 1826-1889. (author)

Year: 1884

Morris, Alexander: 1826-1889. Member of Legislative Assembly of Canada, 1861-1872; appointed chief justice of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, 1872; few months later appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and NWT and during term of office negotiated the more important of the First Nations treaties in NWT, 1872-1877; returned to Ontario (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Contents: Pt. 1. Lecture I. Nova Britannia, or, The consolidation of the British North American provinces into the Dominion of Canada foreshadowed. Lecture II. The Hudson's Bay and Pacific territories. Pt. 2. Speeches and addresses. Morris delivered a number of the speeches while he was Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and NWT. Lectures promoted Confederation. See also Peel 372 and 390.