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I love Canada because . . .31 May 2008
Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Courtesy of David, Triangle 4-H Club
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Photograph: Tilley House, Gagetown, New Brunswickc. 1880
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:From Hannay, James. The Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley Being a Political History of New Brunswick for the Past Seventy Years. St. John, N.B., 1897.
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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In 1817 Thomas Morgan Tilley married Susan Peters. They moved into a small house in the Village of Gagetown, New Brunswick. Thomas, a carpenter, immediately began expanding the house, finishing a large addition just in time to welcome the birth of his first child, Samuel Leonard Tilley.4
Painting: Samuel Leonard and Elizabeth Tilley1825-1831
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Gift of Judith Tilley Moreira in memory of her grandfather, Leonard Percy DeWolfe Tilley, 2007
New Brunswick Museum
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Samuel Leonard Tilley was born 8 May 1818 in a small bedroom off the main parlour of his parents' house in the Village of Gagetown, New Brunswick. The eldest of many brothers and sisters, Samuel Leonard grew up in rather ordinary circumstances.6
Painting: Samuel Leonard Tilleyc. 1845
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Gift of Judith Tilley Moreira, 2003
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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At the age of 13, Samuel Leonard Tilley left Gagetown to apprentice as a pharmacist in Saint John, New Brunswick. He eventually went into business with one of his cousins, Thomas Peters, and the firm of Peters & Tilley became a prosperous apothecary business for both young men. In the 1850s, however, Tilley was moved through the Sons of Temperance to enter provincial politics. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly, climbing to the ranks of Provincial Secretary in the 1860s.8
Photograph: Sir Samuel Leonard Tilleyc. 1890
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:New Brunswick Museum
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As Provincial Secretary for New Brunswick, Samuel Leonard Tilley was a staunch supporter of the growing Confederation Movement. He attended the Charlottetown, Quebec and London Conferences and even suggested the name of our new nation, the Dominion of Canada. As a reward for his support for Confederation, he was given a Federal post in John A. Macdonald's first cabinet. He later served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. A life well lived for a little boy from Gagetown . . . |
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