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The Loyal Whig: William Smith of New York & Quebec

The Loyal Whig: William Smith of New York & Quebec

Upton, L. F. S.

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1487582331
ISBN13: 9781487582333
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1969
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

William Smith is chiefly remembered in Canada as a distant advocate of a confederation that was not achieved until almost three-quarters of a century after his death. Born in New York, he was a member of the generation that led the American Revolution, and bore the hallmarks of a successful revolutionary. Able and ambitious, yet on the outside of his colony's establishment, he gained early prominence as a champion of religious dissent and plunged into the politics of colonial New York as a self-proclaimed Whig. However, when the revolution came, he sat out the crisis and in the end went over to the British. The reward for his loyalty to the Crown was his appointment as chief justice of Quebec.

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