inistration, 86; speaks in favour of Confederation, 96; goes to
England with Cartier and Rose to secure approval of British government
to proposed union, 97; one of commissioners sent to England in 1865 to
confer with Imperial government on Confederation, defence, reciprocity,
etc., 120-121; minister of finance in first Dominion ministry, 134;
resigns, 1867, and succeeded by Rose, 136; introduces high tariff
(1859), 218; his protection policy supported by Macdonald, 219;
appointed high commissioner, 227. =T= Makes Confederation a Cabinet
question, 63; delegate to Charlottetown Conference, 74-75; to Quebec
Conference, 76; presented to the queen, 124; minister of finance in
first Dominion ministry, 129, 130. =B= Asked by Sir Edmund Head to form
government, declines, 106, 133; favours federal union, 106; takes
Cayley's place in Macdonald-Cartier government, 107; advocates in 1858
federal union of all British North American provinces, 132-133; pledges
Cartier government to federal union policy, 133; mission to England,
133; his connection with reciprocity negotiations in 1865, 193-196; his
connection with negotiations with George Brown as to Confederation, 152,
154-155, 160; goes to England on Confederation mission, 186. =C= Goes to
England with Cartier and Rose in connection with Confederation, 56-57;
refuses decoration of C. B., 126-127. =Bib.=: Works: _Canada from 1849
to 1859_; _Union of the British North American Provinces_. For biog.,
_see_ Taylor, _Brit. Am._: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_;
Pope, _Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald_; Egerton and Grant, _Canadian
Constitutional Development_.

=Galt, John= (1779-1839). Came to Canada, 1824; returned to England;
came out again in 1826, remaining until 1829. Associated, in the Canada
Company, with William Dunlop, Thomas Talbot, and Samuel Strickland.
Founded towns of Guelph and Goderich. Town of Galt named after him.
_See_ Canada Company; Dunlop; Talbot; Strickland. =Bib.=: Works:
_Ayrshire Legatees_; _Annals of the Parish_; _Sir Andrew Wylie_; _The
Entail_; _Bogle Corbet_; _Stanley Buxton_; _Eken Erskine_; _The Lost
Child_; _The Member_; _The Radical_; _Laurie Todd_; _Life of Byron_;
_Lives of the Players_; _Autobiography_; _Literary Life and
Miscellanies_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Cel. Can._; _Dict. Nat. Biog._;
Lizars, _Days of the Canada Company_.

=Galt.= A town in Ontario founded by the Canada Company, about 1827.
Named after John Galt. Situated on the G