Tupper Baronets
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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
politician Charles Tupper
Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, sworn in to office on May 1, 1896, seven days after...
. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1896 and Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
in 1896.
Tupper Baronets, of Armdale (1888)
- Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet (1821-1915)
- Sir Charles Stewart Tupper, 2nd Baronet (1884-1960)
- Sir Charles Tupper, 3rd Baronet (1880-1962)
- Sir James Macdonald Tupper, 4th Baronet (1887-1967)
- Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, 5th Baronet (1930-2008)
- Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, 6th Baronet (b. 1964)