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Letter, 5 June 1883
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CA MUA MG 1022-2-1-190-0009
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5 June 1883 (Creation)
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- Bourinot, John George, 1837-1902
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- Ottawa (Ont.)
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(1837-1902)
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Sir John George Bourinot was born on October 24, 1837, in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
He was a writer, political scientist, and historian. He graduated from Toronto's Trinity University in 1857 and then settled in Halifax, where he founded the Herald and became its editor. Following Confederation, he joined the Hansard staff in Ottawa in 1868, and in 1873, he was appointed assistant clerk to the House of Commons, becoming a chief clerk in 1880. He became a leading expert on Canadian Constitution, government, and history, writing several books, including “Parliamentary Procedure and Practice”(1884), "Local Government in Canada" (1887), "Manual of The Constitutional History of Canada" (1888), and “How Canada is Governed” (1895). He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Canada and became its president in 1892.
In 1889, he married Isabelle Cameron. He died on October 13, 1902, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Letter from J.G. Bourinot to John William Dawson, written from Ottawa.