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ALFRED GILPIN JONES (1824-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED GILPIN JONES (1824-1906)  ,
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Canadian politician, was born at
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Weymouth, Nova Scotia., in September 1824, the son of Guy C . Jones of Yarmouth, and grandson of a
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United
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Empire Loyalist . In 1865 he opposed the federation of the
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British
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American provinces, and, in his anger at the refusal of the British government to repeal such portions of the British North
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America Act as referred to Nova Scotia, made a speech which won for him the name of Haul-down-the-flag Jones . He was for many years a member of the Federal Parliament, and for a few months in 1878 was minister of militia under the Liberal government . Largely owing to his influence the Liberal party refused in 1878 to abandon its
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Free Trade policy, an obstinacy which led to its defeat in that
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year . In 1900 he was appointed
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lieutenant-governor of his native province, and held this position till his
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death on the 15th of March 1906 .

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