Leonard Tilley: unlikely saviour of Confederation, ‘rare example of a politician who knew when not to talk’
Samuel Leonard Tilley, a Saint John druggist and leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party, became the unlikely saviour of Confederation in 1866.
OTTAWA—When British North American colonial leaders gathered at Québec City in 1864 to shape the details of the Confederation project, one man stood out, in historian P.B. Waite’s words, as “the rare example of a politician who knew when not to talk.” This was Samuel Leonard Tilley, a Saint...
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