Category: Biographies
In May-August 1875 my father, the Rev. G. M. Grant, published in the _Canadian Monthly_ four articles on Joseph Howe, which give, in my opinion, the best account ever likely to be written of Howe's character, motives, and influence. Twenty-five years later he had begun to writ...
Foiled in the great scheme, the government of Nova Scotia nevertheless went ahead with its policy of provincial railway construction, and in 1854 Howe, to the surprise of many,...
5. Chapter 5One of the oldest political struggles in the world is that of the people to control their government. In this struggle the barons faced King John at Runnymede. In this struggle...
6. Chapter 6In 1825 a train of cars, carrying coal, drawn by a steam locomotive, ran from Stockton to Darlington in Lancashire. In a week the price of coals in Darlington fell from eighteen...
3. Chapter 3Howe was born on the 13th of December 1804, in an old-fashioned cottage on the steep hill that rises up from the city side of the Northwest Arm, a beautiful inlet of the sea ste...
4. Chapter 4To understand the system of government which Howe assailed, we must go back to the very origin of the British colonies. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an exaggerated...
2. Chapter 2Joseph Howe was in a very special sense at once the child and the father of Nova Scotia. His love for his native province was deep and passionate. He was one in whom her defects...
1. Chapter 1In May-August 1875 my father, the Rev. G. M. Grant, published in the _Canadian Monthly_ four articles on Joseph Howe, which give, in my opinion, the best account ever likely to...
13. Chapter 139. Chapter 914. Chapter 1415. Chapter 1510. Chapter 1012. Chapter 1211. Chapter 118. Chapter 816. Chapter 16