Written by John Boyd
Sir George Etienne Cartier - His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal
by John BoydThe greatest work in which Cartier participated, and in which it is freely acknowledged he played a determining part, was of course the establishment of Confederation. The idea of a union of all the provinces of British North America did not originate with Cartier, any more than it originated with Macdonald, Tupper, Tilley, Brown or the other great..