25-662: Province House may refer to: Province House (Nova Scotia) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which houses the Nova Scotia House of Assembly Province House (Prince Edward Island) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, which houses the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Province House (Boston, Massachusetts) , residence of colonial governors of
50-481: A parliament on questions affecting the colony. With voting limited to Protestant , free-land holding males, it was a modest beginning, and their influence with the British-appointed Governor was questionable. It was the first elected assembly of its kind in what eventually became Canada. On January 31, 1837, Simon d'Entremont and Frederick A. Robicheau became the first Acadians elected to
75-470: A thirty-year period, and outraged civic politicians had subsequently seen to it that Howe was charged with seditious libel. The presiding judge called for Howe's conviction, but Howe's passionate speech in his own defence swayed the jury and the jurors acquitted him in what is considered a landmark case in the struggle for a free press in Canada. On January 20, 1842, English author Charles Dickens attended
100-498: Is Canada 's oldest house of government. Standing three storeys tall, the structure is considered one of the finest examples of Palladian architecture in North America . Province House was built on the same location as the previous Governor's House, erected by Edward Cornwallis in 1749. (Cornwallis' table remains in the bedroom of Province House.) Province House was opened for the first time on February 11, 1819. One of
125-601: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Province House (Nova Scotia) Province House ( Scottish Gaelic : Taigh na Roinne ) in Halifax is where the Nova Scotia legislative assembly, known officially as the Nova Scotia House of Assembly , has met every year since 1819, making it the longest serving legislative building in Canada . The building
150-584: The Anti-Confederates did not win any of New Brunswick's fifteen seats in the House of Commons of Canada. While in Nova Scotia and elsewhere, opponents of confederation were predominantly Liberals and supporters were predominantly Tories, in New Brunswick the debate blurred party lines. Anti-Confederate leader Albert Smith and Confederate Peter Mitchell were both Conservatives , while one of
175-613: The Confederation Party , that is, the Conservative and Liberal-Conservative parties. In the 1867 election in Nova Scotia, Anti-Confederates won 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature , and formed a government under William Annand (See 24th General Assembly of Nova Scotia ). The Anti-Confederation Party was opposed by the Confederation Party of Charles Tupper . Prominent Anti-confederates included
200-613: The War of 1812 , . There are also portraits of former prime ministers John Sparrow David Thompson by Thomas Forrestall and Sir Robert Borden by Walter H. Cox . 44°38′52″N 63°34′24″W / 44.64791°N 63.573396°W / 44.64791; -63.573396 Anti-Confederation Party Anti-Confederation was the name used in what is now the Maritimes by several parties opposed to Canadian Confederation . The Anti-Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by
225-706: The governor and was abolished in 1928. Now the room is used for receptions and other meetings. Province House is flanked with two prominent statues. To the north of Province House is the South African War Memorial by Hamilton MacCarthy to the Second Boer War . (MacCarthy also made the South African War Monument in the Halifax Public Gardens and the statue to Harold Lothrop Borden .) On one of
250-484: The House of Assembly ( Joseph Winniett , whose mother was Acadian, was elected to the assembly in 1761). (Two months later, on March 24, 1837, black men in Canada were given the right to vote. ) in 1893, Edith Archibald and others made the first official attempt to have a suffrage bill for women property holders passed in Nova Scotia, which was passed by the legislature but quashed by Attorney General James Wilberforce Longley (who opposed unions and female emancipation for
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#1732772081154300-581: The United States , Howe was a pragmatist and ultimately accepted Confederation as a fact. He was soon persuaded to join the Cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald , leading to the movement's collapse (1869). "...the scheme [confederation with Canada] by them assented to would, if adopted, deprive the people [of Nova Scotia] of the inestimable privilege of self-government, and of their rights, liberty and independence, rob them of their revenue, take from them
325-565: The efforts of Joseph Howe, the Anti-Confederation Party won a resounding majority in the first election held after Nova Scotia joined the Confederation of Canada on July 1, 1867. Province House was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996, in recognition of its status as the longest serving legislative building in Canada, and the role it played in the development of responsible government and freedom of
350-746: The noted shipbuilder William D. Lawrence , Alfred William Savary and the wealthy merchant Enos Collins . Federally, in the 1867 federal election , the Anti-Confederates won 18 of Nova Scotia's 19 seats in the House of Commons of Canada . Joseph Howe won the federal seat in Hants County, Nova Scotia , while William D. Lawrence won the Hants County provincial seat. Britain , however, refused to allow Nova Scotia to secede. While many anti-confederationists threatened to secede and join
375-602: The opening of the Nova Scotia Legislature. He said that it was like looking at Westminster through the wrong end of a telescope. During 1848, Province House was the site for the first form of responsible government in the British Empire outside the United Kingdom . The building is located in downtown Halifax on a block bordered by Hollis, Granville, George and Prince streets. Led by
400-543: The panels is a sculpture of the Battle of Witpoort, made famous by the death of Nova Scotian Harold Lothrop Borden. To the south of Province House is a statue to the Honourable Joseph Howe , created by famed Quebec sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert . On the north side of Province House is a cannon from HMS Shannon , and on the south side is a cannon of USS Chesapeake which was captured in
425-541: The present-day library for seditious libel by civic politicians in Nova Scotia. Many scholars consider Howe's success in this case a landmark event in the evolution of press freedom in Canada. The Red Chamber was formerly the meeting place of the Nova Scotia Council and later the Legislative Council , the upper house of Nova Scotia's legislature. The Legislative Council was appointed by
450-477: The press in the country. It is also a Provincially Registered Property under provincial heritage legislation. Province House is the home of the House of Assembly , Nova Scotia's elected legislative assembly. In 1908 and 2008, there were significant official celebrations in Nova Scotia and Canada to mark the 150th and 250th anniversary of the birth of parliamentary democracy (i.e., representative government) in Canada, which started in Nova Scotia. The first event
475-415: The regulation of trade and taxation, expose them to arbitrary taxation by a legislature over which they have no control, and in which they would possess but a nominal and entirely ineffective representation; deprive them of their invaluable fisheries, railways, and other property, and reduce this hitherto free, happy, and self-governed province to a degraded condition of a servile dependency of Canada." There
500-614: The second floor between the Red Chamber and Legislative Assembly, was originally the home of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia , until the court outgrew the space. The first important trial in the court was against Richard John Uniacke Jr. for killing William Bowie in the last lethal duel in Nova Scotia (1819). The Supreme Court chamber was the site of Joseph Howe's 1835 trial for seditious libel . On March 2, 1835, newspaper editor Joseph Howe defended himself at trial in
525-688: The smallest functioning legislatures in North America, Province House originally housed the executive, legislative and judicial functions of the colony, all in one building. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia held its sessions in Province House (in what is today the legislative library). Most notably, Joseph Howe , a journalist and later Premier of Nova Scotia , was put on trial on a charge of criminal libel on March 2, 1835, at Province House. Howe had published an anonymous letter accusing Halifax politicians and police of pocketing £30,000 over
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#1732772081154550-532: The twenty years he was in office). On April 26, 1918, as a result of the Local Council of Women of Halifax (LCWH), the House of Assembly passed The Nova Scotia Franchise Act , which gave women the right to vote in Nova Scotia's provincial elections, the first province to do so in Atlantic Canada. (A month later Nova Scotian and Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden – whose wife Laura Bond
575-467: Was also an Anti-Confederation Party in New Brunswick led by Albert James Smith , whose coalition of Conservatives and Reformers won the 1865 election. It was, however, soundly defeated in the 1866 election by the Confederation Party led by Peter Mitchell . The legislature that resulted from that election approved Confederation by a margin of 38 to 1. Accordingly, in the 1867 federal election
600-480: Was former president of the LCWH – used his majority to pass women's suffrage for the whole country.) Almost forty-three years later, on February 1, 1961, Gladys Porter was the first woman elected to the assembly. In 1993, Wayne Adams was elected as the first Black member of the assembly. The Nova Scotia legislature was the third in Canada to pass human rights legislation (1963). The Legislative Library, located on
625-543: Was marked by the creation of the Dingle Tower and the second by a year-long celebration the birth of parliamentary democracy in Canada. The celebration was entitled Democracy 250 . On October 2, 1758, the Nova Scotia House of Assembly met for the first time in a modest wooden building at the corner of Argyle and Buckingham streets in Halifax . It was an assembly of twenty-two men, who came together to deliberate as
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