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George brown
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born 29 November 1818 in Alloa, Scotland; died 9 May 1880 in Toronto, ON
Raised in Edinburgh, Brown immigrated with his father to New York in 1837.
moved to Toronto in 1843 and began a paper, the Banner, for Upper Canadian Presbyterians
Brown helped win the Reformers' victory of 1848, and made his Globe a vigorous force in Upper Canada
in 1853 he supported the idea of representation by population, which would give the more populous Upper Canada a majority of seats in the legislature
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Brown entered politics in 1851, being elected as a Reform candidate for the county of Kent, Canada West. In the legislature he soon made his mark as a critic and formidable debater, but his views about French-speaking Canadians made for an uneasy relationship with the reformers of Canada East, the Rouges.
In 1858 there was a short-lived attempt to construct a Reform ministry headed by Brown and A.-A. Dorion, but the new administration could not win the confidence of the House. The next year Brown and the Reform party adopted the goal of a federal union for the two Canadas, leaving each part free to manage its local affairs.
He was shot in the leg by a disgruntled former employee at The Globe offices. This wound would ultimately lead to his death seven weeks later.
George Brown emigrated to New York from Scotland, and decided to move to Toronto a few years later. Shortly after arriving in Toronto.
he founded The Globe newspaper (now The Globe and Mail) and became involved in politics as a reformer. He reorganized the Clear Grit party, which would later become the Liberal party.
George Brown set the ball rolling to unite the British North American colonies and in 1864 he joined a coalition with his political rivals John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier to pursue the idea.
After attending two conferences to discuss the plan in Charlottetown and Quebec City, Brown left the coalition in 1865 over a dispute about trade with the United States. His efforts helped pave the way for Confederation in 1867.
By rising above political differences in his coalition of 1864, Brown helped pave the way for Confederation. He is counted as one of the Fathers of Confederation. Equally enduring is Brown’s journalistic legacy.
His influential Globe ushered in the beginning of big newspaper business in Canada. The Globe boasted the largest circulation in British North America in the 1850s and is today one of Toronto’s major daily papers, The Globe and Mail, after having merged with the Mail and Empire in 1936.
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he was a Journalist, Politician
A restored, deeply happy Brown returned to politics in 1863 as member for South Oxford. Here he explored more conciliatory means to achieve reform of the Union.
He continued to support Confederation nonetheless and ran in the first federal elections in fall 1867.
In the elections of 1847–48 the Globe trumpeted the Liberal cause once more. But further, its editor personally entered into the contest in the western county of Oxford, where Baldwin asked him to conduct a campaign for Hincks who was away in Britain.
This was Brown’s first full-fledged election campaign, even though he was not a candidate himself. Undoubtedly his enthusiasm and untiring efforts in speaking across the riding did a good deal to win the seat for Hincks –
though it also left a heritage of jealousy between two strong-minded men. The Reformers swept into power in both sections of Canada, and in March 1848 the La Fontaine–Baldwin government took office as a wholly Reform cabinet embodying the principle of responsible rule.