Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . gratedto Canada with his fathers family. Two yearsafterward he returned to Great Britain, remainedthere three years, and then, returning to Toronto,entered the employ of the Canada land company,in which he remained six years. He then beganthe study of law in the office of Justice Draper,and was called to the bar of Upper Canada in1845. He at once took a prominent place in hisprofession, in 1858 was created a queens counsel,and in 1869 was made a judge of the court of com-mon pleas.—Another son, Sir Alexander Tilloch,Canadian statesman, b. in Chelse
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . gratedto Canada with his fathers family. Two yearsafterward he returned to Great Britain, remainedthere three years, and then, returning to Toronto,entered the employ of the Canada land company,in which he remained six years. He then beganthe study of law in the office of Justice Draper,and was called to the bar of Upper Canada in1845. He at once took a prominent place in hisprofession, in 1858 was created a queens counsel,and in 1869 was made a judge of the court of com-mon pleas.—Another son, Sir Alexander Tilloch,Canadian statesman, b. in Chelsea, London, Eng-land, 6 Sept., 1817, was educated in England andCanada, and early displayed literary ability, contrib-uting to Frasers Magazine when only emigrated to Canada when a boy, and in 1833became a clerk in the service of the British andAmerican land company, whose operations werelimited to the eastern townships of Lower was appointed commissioner of the company in1844, and held the office for twelve years, and. under his management the business of the cor-poration became prosperous, [n 1849 Mr. Gaitwas elected a member of parliament for thecounty of Sherbrooke, and though he was then aLibera] in politics, he opposed the administrationof Messrs. Baldwin and Lafontaine, rated againstthe rebellion Josses bill, and, despairing at thattime of Canadas future, signed the annexationmanifesto. When Toronto became the seal of gov-ernment, after the de-struction of* the par-liament buildings atMontreal, Mr. Gait re-signed, and did notre - enter politics till1853, when he wasagain elected for Sher-brooke, and continuedin parliament till hisresignation in the resignationof the Brown-Doriongovernment in Au-gust, 1858, the gov-ernor-general, Sir Ed-mund W. Head, calledupon Mr. Gait to forman administration, buthe declined. Thesame year he proposed resolutions in parliament in favor of a federalunion of the British North American colonies, andthese beca
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