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obtained a seat in the assembly— was chiefly influential for years as an 

 editorial writer on The Morning Chronicle. Senator Dickey was a Con- 

 servative member of the council, which he left in 1867 to take a 

 prominent place in the senate of Canada, where his aged, bent figure — such 

 a contrast to the dapper, well-dreesed figure of old limch— can still be 

 seen. His cuUeague from the same county of Cumberland, Mr. 

 Alexander McFarhine, has quite recently joined the ranks of the great 

 majority, and only Senator Miller is now left to represent the original 

 twelve members who were appointed fiom Xova Scotia in 1867. He is, 

 however, a much younger man than those I have just named and conse- 

 quently takes still an active part in the debates and proceedings of 

 the upper house, where his facility of speech and incisiveness of argu- 

 ment make him a factor of importance at critical times. 



PUOVINXE BUILDING AT HALIFAX 



From Ilaliburtons Nota Scotia. 



m. The Old Province Building and Its Associations. — But time warn.9 

 me that I must not dwell too long on men, who were, after all, minor 

 figures on the political stage of those days, but should now pass on to 

 the two statesmen who above all othei-s, occupied the larger share of 

 public attention forty years ago. One was James W. Johnston, a descen- 

 dant of a Georgia loyalist, who represented for many years the 

 aristocratic and conservative traditions of that class — the other was 

 Joseph Howe, also the son of a New Kngland loyalist, who became a 

 leader of the people, in some respects the " Sam Adams" of Nova Scotia, 

 though never disloyal to the crown or prepared to press his arguments 

 to the arbitrament of revolution. 



Between two of the princijial and oldest streets of Halifax there is 

 an old brown stone building, well darkened by the damp sea air and coal 



