Hincks* administration, a Grand Trunk Railway sub-contract to build a bridge over the Napanee River, and an appointment as company arbitrator for the GTR in April 1854
Morin and Francis Hincks*, whose fortunes were about to be eclipsed, and his opposition to the Clear Grits and more advanced
the Unitarian Francis Hincks*, in the St Patrick Society, which had been founded in 1834. Both of them, with Lewis Thomas
complete his contracts he gained a reputation, according to Francis Hincks*, as “one of the best and most successful contractors that had ever been
Hincks* described him as “a spy and a traitor,” and shortly afterwards as “at heart a liberal.”
Harrison’s political importance initially declined
Hincks, united two groups of arch-rivals, the French Canadian and the Irish workers on the Lachine Canal and on the docks, and used the latter to rule the polling stations physically; Drummond
Hincks*. King called upon Prime Minister Macdonald to guarantee “the absolute security of the currency” by the terms of the new bill, but such pleas had little impact upon Hincks, who had close ties
Hincks*, minister of finance, but he left his party over the Pacific Scandal later in the same year. He indicated firmly, however reluctantly, that he would oppose Macdonald’s government. Lewis either
years earlier in the short-lived Canada Farmer. These activities collectively paid off in 1851. Francis Hincks*, who had replaced
in the place of the Reverend Robert Vashon Rogers, with whom he was involved in a proposal in the mid–1850s to have the Reverend Thomas Hincks, brother of
1851. Niles represented East Middlesex in the Legislative Assembly from 1854 to 1857, elected as a moderate Reformer in support of Francis Hincks
Rolph*, and Francis Hincks, Price was a founder and director of the Bank of the People in 1835; he also
Francis Hincks* as minister of finance in 1869, an appointment strongly attacked by the Toronto Globe. Asserting that “all this clamor
to save the town of Sherbrooke for the Liberals. It was therefore not surprising that the government of Francis Hincks* and Augustin-Norbert
Hincks* and Joseph Curran Morrison*. Simpson was returned in 1857 as a Conservative, defeating Charles Curry. He was successful in
offered but refused the post of inspector-general; no proof of this offer seems to exist and observers such as Francis Hincks* questioned the
Grenville South, Patrick was a follower of Francis Hincks and was one of the Hincksite Liberals backing the
Hincks* threatened to resign as inspector general, but the Tory Toronto Patriot termed the appointment “the only honorable act of . . . [the government’s] ten months of power
administration of Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin*, and erected sawmills at Petworth and Napanee. In 1853 he and such lumbermen as Hugo
discussing the chequered career of Sir Francis Hincks, for instance, he observed that Hincks was a “statesman who