Alfred Gilpin Jones, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (September 28, 1824 – March 15, 1906) was a Canadian

Canada

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 businessman, politician, and seventh Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

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Born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia

Weymouth, Nova Scotia

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, the son of Guy Carleton Jones and Frances Jones, he was a merchant and established his own firm, A. G. Jones and Company, in 1872.

In 1867

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, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the riding of Halifax

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. One of 18 members elected of the Anti-Confederation Party

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, he became an independent in 1869 and was defeated in 1872

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. He was re-elected in 1874

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 but was forced to resign in 1878 due to an alleged breach of the Independence of Parliament Act. He was re-elected in the resulting 1878 by-election and was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence

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 from January to October. He was defeated in the 1878 election

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 and in 1882

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. He was re-elected in 1887

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 as a Liberal but was defeated in 1891

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From 1900 until his death in Halifax

City of Halifax

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 in 1906, he was the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.

Family

Jones was married twice: to Margaret Wiseman Stairs, the aunt of John Fitzwilliam Stairs

John Fitzwilliam Stairs

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant...

, in 1850 and to Emma Albro in 1877.

Jones and and his first wife, Margaret Wiseman had a daughter Alice Jones, who was a writer known under her nom de plume" Alix John." Miss Alice Jones was born and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and studied languages in France and Italy. She wrote for the Toronto Week, and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts," to Frank Leslie's Monthly. As Alix Jones, she published a novel "The Night Hawk" in 1902 and "Bubbles We Buy" in 1903. Alice lived with her father in Government House, Halifax, N.S.