Governors of Nova Scotia
1811-1816: Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
1816-1820: Earl of Dalhousie
1820-1834: Sir James Kempt
1827: Popular Revolution; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island declare loyalty to the Guelphs
1832: Cape Breton Island secedes, becomes a colony under the authority of Parliament
1834: Prince Edward Island secedes, becomes a colony under the authority of Parliament
-outbreak of British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9))
-new government sends commission to BNA
-Upper and Lower Canada go for the revolution
-but Maritimes too Loyalist for that
-Halifax keeps a sizeable Loyalist navy section
-following end of Convention Parliament it continues
-in 1832 to keep port near St. Lawrence, an Act of Parliament declares Cape Breton Island a separate colony
-with longstanding resent over Cape Breton's amalgamation into NS, this sees widespread support
-to avoid battle Loyalist army flees
-following Orange Riots of 1834 (Heads of British Isles > 1834-1837 Samuel Whitbread (Radical))), Nova Scotia's loyalism suddenly very suspect
-causes attacks on merchant shipping
-and torching of Nova Scotian fleet by the British
-Westminster issues Act constituting Prince Edward Island as a separate colony with tenant right
-causes rebellion, it too goes for the revolutionary regime
-ends with Kempt resigning after mass chaos
1834-1838: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery
-1838: Treaty of Boston; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick consolidated into a formally independent monarchy
-negotiates with Heads of British Isles > 1837-1839 Lord John Russell (Moderate Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) †-†) administration
-establishes independent kingdom under lesser scion of Guelph family
Kings of Nova Scotia
1838-1856: Adolphus (House of FitzClarence)
-Source
-establishes trade links with Hanover (under his uncle <a href="./head-lists/europe/heads-of-british-isles.html#1833-1851-"ernest-i"" class="wikilink">Heads of British Isles > 1833-1851 "Ernest I")
-despite this grows to be very linked with the British system
-ships to and from Ernstshaven become very common
-with outbreak of French Wars > Third French War (1847-54)) links with British system grow even further
-postwar
1856-1863: George (House of FitzClarence)
1863: Monarchy abolished in the wake of a financial default; Nova Scotia made a British colony
-financial crisis thanks to railroads, other boom
-defaults
-to rebuild, its legislature negotiates offer of becoming a pseudo-dependency
Presidents of the Solvency Commission of Nova Scotia
1863-1878: Edward Baring
-a British banker who essentially governs the territory
-in order to establish a system of solvency
-sees the imposition of broad taxes with the consent of a small representative emergency
-in order to repay all the loans and all
-also enacts reforms to construct infrastructure efficiently
-and repositions Nova Scotia as part of economy looking outwards towards Caribbean trade
-eventually Heads of British Isles > 1876-1885 John Morley (Radical)) wants to stop spending so much money
-and so issues law for creation of full autonomy of the country
Governors of the Province of Nova Scotia
1878-1886: Thomas MacPherson (Reform)
1878 def. Charles Tupper (Country)
1882 def.
-Charter granting full autonomy introduced
1886-1890: Bruce Curtis (Country)
1886 def. Thomas MacPherson (Reform)
1890-1902:
1890 def.
1894 def.
1898 def.
1902-1910:
1902 def.
1906 def.
1910-1913:
1910 def.
Presidents of the Solvency Commission of the Maritimes of British North America
1912-1915: Sampson Lloyd
-appointed following the bankruptcy of Newfoundland
-associated with Lloyd's
-subsequent bankruptcy of Nova Scotia sees it expanded there
1915-1919: Laurence Crauford
-governs over the shotgun wedding of Gulf Islands, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia into a new country, Cabotia
-in order to establish a nation that won't have yet other financial issues
Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Cabotia
1919-1928:
1919 def.
1922 def.
1925 def.