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"When Charles Clarke settled in Elora, Ontario, in 1848 he joined the ranks of the province's radical reformers, becoming a vigorous critic of everything in Canada that smacked of the old regime - rank, privilege, and monopoly - and an enthusiastic supporter of everything promised by the new - equity, democracy, and individual opportunity.
He played a prominent role in drafting the "Clear Grit" platform of 1851, supporting such ideas as a householder's suffrage, the secret ballot, and representation by population. He later espoused the two great causes of nineteenth-century Anglo-Canadian liberalism: provincial rights in Canada and Irish Home Rule in Britain.".
"Equally involved in local affairs - from the Natural History Society to the Sons of Temperance - Clarke tirelessly promoted the natural beauties of Elora and tried to protect the environment of the Grand River Gorge from the ravages of industry and human carelessness. Using Clarke's journalistic writings, his private diary, and a memoir he wrote in later life, Kenneth Dewar paints a vivid picture of Clarke's evolving sense of himself and his world in an age of profound transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biographies, Biography, Histoire, History, Hommes politiques, Ontario, Ontario. Assemblée législative, Ontario. Legislative Assembly, Politicians, Politics and government, Politique et gouvernement, Politicians, canada, Ontario, politics and government, Ontario, history, Canada, biographyPlaces
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Charles Clarke, pen and ink warrior
2002, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773523545 9780773523548
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-320) and index.
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