The Brothers MacPherson
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Like other business and political leaders of the period, he did not abandon free trade so much as free trade abandoned him. Higher American tariffs convinced him that such an arrangement with the United States was no longer possible. However, at least one political organizer considered another, different kind of pamphlet from Macpherson to be the most successful of the election.
Ontario political organizers published this denunciation, along with the remarks of the Highland Scots of Glengarry County thanking Macpherson for championing their race. The election returned the Conservatives to power.
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Macdonald considered rewarding him with a more prominent position in the government. In he placed Macpherson in the cabinet and appointed him speaker of the Senate. In the summer of , an ailing Macdonald, then in England, had Macpherson look after his own Department of the Interior. After he returned in September, Macpherson continued to administer dominion lands policy, while Macdonald retained Indian affairs and the North-West Mounted Police. Attempts were made to encourage settlement by liberalizing various regulations for homesteading and by making the attractive land near the proposed route of the Canadian Pacific Railway available for settlement.
Macpherson hoped to delegate part of the responsibility for the promotion of settlement to private enterprise. The companies were expected to pay one-fifth of the total cost as a down payment, and to place two settlers in each section on their tracts within five years.
Finally, with the apparent success of the CPR in mind, the Department of the Interior used land policy to encourage the development of branch railways linking up to the CPR system. The policies were undermined by the continued attraction of settlers to the American west, and by the land boom and bust in the Canadian northwest during the s.
For example, in the face of the speculative land boom of —82, Macpherson, as acting minister, had exercised his right to close to homesteading the lands along and south of the projected line of the CPR. Speculators such as C. When the auctions failed to provide significant revenue, Macpherson succumbed to pressure from speculators concerned with the effect of these sales on the land they had acquired and from settlers who wanted to locate near the railway.
By his private colonization scheme was failing and many companies were asking to be relieved of their contractual obligations.
Land obtained but not required by the railway remained in the hands of the contractors. Macpherson enrolled to study law at Sydney University. Mar 31, Pages Buy. Retrieved 9 November Land speculation lay at the heart of the decision of Gzowski and Company to have the Toronto and Guelph extended to Sarnia early in Toronto, , Speeches on the public expenditure and National Policy , delivered in June , , during his visit to the county of Bruce part of the former Saugeen Division Toronto, , and Mr.
Only 27 of the companies that had applied made their first payment, and even they had been unable to attract the desired number of settlers. The railways would get an immediate cash subsidy, and the government could earn back the cash grant later by selling the lands it had purchased. When even this measure did not seem to have the intended effect, Macpherson unsuccessfully urged the public construction of a system of cheap, narrow-gauge branch railways. In part, he simply had the misfortune of being minister during a slump in world grain prices and at a time when advances in farming methods had made land in the western United States far more attractive.
He also had the misfortune to hold a major portfolio at a time when his health was deteriorating. Aware of his limitations, he had asked in to be allowed to retire from the cabinet.
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Even after his formal appointment, Macpherson continued to spend several months each summer and fall at spas in Germany recovering from the effects of diabetes. His health problems produced delays and confusion in the administration of land policy, and in the late summer of prevented him from making what would have been his first visit to the northwest. In pursuit of his objectives he was, perhaps, too willing to ignore the advice of his subordinates, over-sensitive to criticism, and unaware of the impact of his decisions in the northwest.
The most serious problem facing the settlers was uncertainty over land policy. The frequent changes in regulations between and created a great deal of confusion. Moreover, at times the department was ill equipped to administer its policies at the local level. There were concerns that changes in regulations would be retroactive and would affect existing settlers, confusion as to whether colonization companies would prevent independent settlers from homesteading on significant tracts of land, complaints of delays in the issuing of land patents, and conflicts over the proper surveying methods to be adopted where settlement already existed.
Departmental officials were reluctant to provide a new survey. His recommendations, however, were not approved by Pearce and forwarded to Ottawa until the fall. In the face of these conflicting views, the government simply postponed a decision.
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But instead of making a firm decision, the government chose to appoint a committee to investigate mixed-blood claims. When rumours of violence reached Ottawa, Macpherson characteristically defended himself and did not see how his department could have done more. Even before the rebellion, Macpherson had informed Macdonald that he intended to resign at the end of the parliamentary session, which would come in July. His health and spirit were broken by the outbreak of the insurrection. By May he was anxious to travel to his spa in Hamburg Federal Republic of Germany , his diabetic problem having been aggravated by congestion in the lungs.
Macpherson held to this view for the rest of his life. Riel made the halfbreeds believe that they owned the North West, and that they would extort liberal concessions for the sake of peace. Although his departure from public life had been unpleasant, he could at least be satisfied that in , prior to the crisis in the northwest, his service to Canada had been rewarded with a knighthood. When in Canada, Macpherson continued to use his political organizational skills to provide some assistance to Macdonald.
His attendance to his duties as a senator, however, was sporadic. Before Macpherson could relax comfortably, he needed to attend to one piece of unfinished family business. His daughters had married into society, one of them being the wife of George Airey Kirkpatrick, later a lieutenant governor of Ontario, and his eldest son, William Molson, enjoyed a successful business career, but his other son, David Hamilton, had been a constant source of trouble. Fortunately, by the late s he seemed to have recovered from his alcoholism and he held a position in the North-West Mounted Police.
However, his minor rank was not acceptable socially for a member of the Macpherson family, and the senator persistently pressured Macdonald to have his son made an officer. With his family well secured socially and economically, Macpherson settled down to a life of ease and even considered writing his memoirs. From his villa on the Riviera, Macpherson watched the collapse of the Conservative party.
Patteson, that he feared a general election would send the party out of power. As a railway promoter, financier, and politician, Macpherson preferred to set aside theoretical principles and questions of religion and nationality in a quest to develop the credit, capital, and resources of the developing nation. He never doubted that what was best for Canada was the kind of prosperity that had enabled the men of his generation to make their fortunes. Toronto, , Speeches on the public expenditure and National Policy , delivered in June , , during his visit to the county of Bruce part of the former Saugeen Division Toronto, , and Mr.
York County Surrogate Court Toronto , no. XX; Legislative Assembly, App. Debate in the Senate on the public expenditure of the dominion , March , Macpherson , McLelan and Campbell Ottawa, HBRS , 33 Bowsfield.
Joseph Pope, Public servant: Maurice Pope Toronto, Dent, Canadian portrait gallery. Types of Canadian women Morgan. Then the Macpherson operations merged with the Liverpool Sheltering Home in The Knowlton Home closed in , as did the Stratford Home in Marchmont closed in , when Barnardo's took over the operations of the Liverpool Sheltering Home. In this guide, see also Liverpool Sheltering Home. Before , immigration was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. There are files relating to various sending agencies, including that of Annie Macpherson.
Those records have been indexed by name in our Home Children Records database. This series contains correspondence between the Immigration Branch and many of the sending organizations. The files contain a variety of documents relating to the activities of the organizations, often including annual reports, lists of children's names and medical certificates. The documents within each file are arranged by date.
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Immigration of children, Robert Wallance, Marchmont, Belleville RG76, volume 30, file , parts 1 to 3, , microfilm C RG76, volume 30, file , part 3, , microfilm C Immigration officials created inspection reports as they carried out regular inspections of children brought to Canada by various organizations. These records date from to ; however, there are a few from to and after There is usually one page per child, showing name, age or date of birth, year of arrival, ship, sending organization, the names and addresses of employers and final comments, e.
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