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Time to retire Canada's Fathers of Confederation?
TIME TO RETIRE AN OUTDATED CONCEPT?
Ged Martin, December 2015
An Outsider Intrudes
The categorisation of 36 nineteenth-century politicians as Canada’s ‘Fathers of Confederation’ no longer serves any worthwhile purpose, and should be abandoned, certainly by historians.
In making this claim, I have to add one huge disclaimer: I am neither a citizen nor a resident of Canada. Strictly speaking, how Canadians decide to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation, which falls in 2017, is none of my business. I can claim only to be an observer – I hope a friendly one – of Canadian events over several decades, and a lärjunge of Canada’s history. In that latter capacity, I can and do suggest that the notion of the ‘Fathers of Confederation’ may have served a purpose a century ago, but that it has come to raise more issues than it solves in modern times.
Defining the Fathers of Confederation &nb • When Elizabeth Wilmot Black was born on 4 January 1844, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Etter Black, was 33 and her mother, Hannah kanon, was 31. She married Robert Duncan Wilmot Jr on 24 January 1867, in New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Queens, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901 and Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1911. She died on 23 June 1923, in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada. • WILMOT, LEMUEL ALLAN, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 31 Jan. 1809 in Sunbury County, N.B., son of William Wilmot and Hannah Bliss; d. 20 May 1878 at Fredericton, N.B. Lemuel Allan Wilmot’s father was a lumberman of loyalist ancestry, and his mother, who died before he was two years old, was a daughter of Daniel Bliss, a loyalist and member of the first New Brunswick Executive Council in 1784. William Wilmot, not particularly successful in business, moved to Fredericton in 1813 to found a Baptist church and to educate his children. There he acquired an interest in politics and was elected to the assembly in 1816; he was defeated in 1819 and 1820 but re-elected in 1823. Twice, however, he was denied permission to take his seat, for an act had been passed in 1818 to prevent clergymen from sitting in the legislature. As he was ejected from the house for the second time, he is reported to have said, “Sir, the time will come when that lad (pointing to him [L