Alfred Gilpin Jones

Alfred Gilpin Jones (born Sept. 24, 1824, Weymouth, Nova Scotia—died March 15, 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Can.) was a Canadian statesman, opponent of confederation, and influential member of Parliament who served as lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1900–06. Jones ran a West Indian importing firm in Halifax until his opposition to the union of Nova Scotia with Canada brought him into politics in 1864. He protested the refusal of the British government to exempt...