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Kerr, Sir Edmund Head, a scholarly governor, with the assistance of J. A. In 1823 he was a leader in a constitutional reform convention held in Raleigh. MacNutt, “The coming of responsible government to New Brunswick,” CHR, XXXIII (1952), 111–28.

By far the most valuable study of Fisher is E. D.

The line was taken over completely by the government. New Brunswick Reporter (Fredericton), 1844–80. Fisher, as a graduate and long time registrar, defended the college but in 1858 he could not stop a bill to abolish it. Macdonald* certainly suspected it.

One of Fisher’s rewards was the voyage to England as a delegate to the London conference.

He was not a candidate to succeed himself in 1840, but in 1844 he was persuaded to run again against Daniel M. Barringer. frankness.” “Privately he was not always to be understood – there was a non-commitalism about him, even in important matters, which many of his friends could not account for, as though he always felt that his best counsellor was himself, and the least he divulged to others it would be all the safer for his side.” Whatever the reason, a tide began to swell against Fisher in 1858, and when he was implicated in a crown lands scandal of 1861, his colleagues dumped him immediately.

Smith. 16, 1808 - d. It seems clear that politics in New Brunswick differed little from politics in Nova Scotia or Canada.

He had, as he predicted, returned to his position. This research has taken on a special relevance in light of current industry activities to mine the copper, silver, and gold associated with the hydrothermal chimney polymetalic sulfide deposits in the region. Fisher’s bill, based on a commission report, set up a non-sectarian university with a much broader curriculum than in the old classical college.

During these years Fisher was actively supporting railway construction.

Lawrence*, an acute contemporary observer, quotes with approval the widely held view that “Fisher made the balls and Wilmot fired them.” Fisher certainly understood the issues behind the constitutional changes being demanded, and may well have worked out the arguments which the more volatile Wilmot presented.

Following his election in 1837, Fisher worked diligently, often in cooperation with the government.

Though once burned in effigy in Saint John for opposing the Saint John to Shediac line, he was a solid supporter of the European and North American Railway as well as the Intercolonial. 1856. In December 1823 he attempted to block the Roanoke forces and their campaign to elevate W. H. Crawford to the presidency. Fenety*.