What is Alexander Tilloch Galt?
[[File:Sir Alexander Galt (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt in 1869]] '''Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt''', {{postnominals|country=CAN|GCMG|CB|PC}} (Born September 6, 1817, died September 19, 1893) was a [[politician]] and a father of the [[Canadian Confederation]]. He began working in [[Canada]] with the British American Land Company in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships. He was angry about the [[political deadlock]] in the united [[legislature]] of Canada East ([[Québec]]) and Canada West ([[Ontario]]). He first supported [[annexation]] to the [[United States]], but later worked for a federal union of the British North American [[colonies]]. After [[Confederation]], he moved from [[electoral politics]] into [[diplomacy]]. He continued to promote development in the Eastern Townships and later in southern [[Alberta]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-alexander-tilloch-galt|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Politics-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Galt, Alexander Tilloch}} [[Category:1817 births]] [[Category:1893 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian businesspeople]] [[Category:Canadian politicians]] [[Category:Knights Bachelor]] [[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec]] [[Category:Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Category:People from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]] [[Category:Privy Councillors (Canada)]]