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1818 - 1880
Politician and Founding father of Canada
Politician and founding father of Canada, born and Educated in Edinburgh. As an Ontario politician, he favoured a federation of the British Colonies in North American and spoke against the French Canadians, developing the deep divisions that persist today.
In 1864, George Brown proposed the Great Coalition to John A. MacDonald and George - Etienne Cartier, and went on to play a major role at the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences. He resigned from the coalition in 1865.
George brown was the founder and editor of the "Toronto Globe". In 1880, a disappointed and frustrated former employee of the Globe shot him in a scuffle at the paper's Toronto offices. The injury to his leg seemed minor enough at first, but an infection developed and subsequently took his life.
