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Alfred Gilpin Jones
Alfred Gilpin Jones

Alfred Gilpin Jones

Canadian statesman
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Born:
Sept. 24, 1824, Weymouth, Nova Scotia
Died:
March 15, 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Can. (aged 81)
Political Affiliation:
Liberal Party of Canada
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Alfred Gilpin Jones (born Sept. 24, 1824, Weymouth, Nova Scotia—died March 15, 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Can.) was a Canadian statesman, opponent of confederation, and influential member of Parliament who served as lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1900–06. Jones ran a West Indian importing firm in Halifax until his opposition to the union of Nova Scotia with Canada brought him into politics in 1864. He protested the refusal of the British government to exempt Nova Scotia from the British North America Act, which created the Dominion of Canada in 1867, the year in which he was elected member of ...(100 of 131 words)

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