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I love Canada because . . .
31 May 2008
Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
Courtesy of Anne, Triangle 4-H Club

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As a leader of New Brunswick, federal cabinet minister, twice Lieutenant Governor and Father of Confederation, Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley's legacy is extensive. Within a year of his death the first complete biography of his life appeared with James Hannay's work, The Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley.

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Book, The Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley by James Hannay
c. 1897
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
Babbitt Family Collection
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.

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More honours followed with the construction of a life sized statue of Tilley placed on a pedestal in King Square, Saint John.

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Postcard of Tilley Monument, Saint John, New Brunswick
6 March 1906
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
Gift of Sylvia Hamm, 1989
Queens County Historical society & Museum Inc.

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Herbert Tilley led a private life, dying in 1909 at the age of 41. LPD Tilley, however, followed in his father's footsteps and engaged in business and politics with ambitions to high political office.

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Photograph: Leonard Percy Dewolfe Tilley
c. 1910
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
New Brunswick Museum

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Here LPD Tilley is pictured with his two daughters, Margaret and Alice.

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Photograph: Leonard Percy Dewolfe Tilley and his Daughters, Margaret and Alice Tilley
c. 1908
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
New Brunswick Museum

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Pictured here are Alice and Leonard Tilley, children of LPD Tilley and grandchildren of Sir Samuel Leonard and Lady Alice Tilley.

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Photograph: Alice and Leonard Tilley
c. 1925
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
New Brunswick Museum

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In 1926 Queens County author and Anglican minister Archdeacon Hiram A. Cody dedicated his book, The Fighting Slogan, to Sir Leonard Tilley.

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Book dedicated to Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley by author H.A. Cody
1926
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada

Credits:
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.

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In 1927 Canada prepared to celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of Confederation. For this sixtieth celebration, LPD Tilley, now serving in the Provincial Legislature, came to Gagetown and unveiled a plaque on the local Post Office recognizing Gagetown as the birthplace of his illustrious father. That same day, he placed a large framed photograph of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley in the front hall of the then Dingee Hotel, his father's birthplace. The photograph has hung in the house, in the hall ever since.