Robert Grant Haliburton
Robert Grant Haliburton made significant contributions to
the Canada First nationalist movement through his advocacy for Canadian autonomy and national pride. As a prominent public figure, Haliburton worked tirelessly to promote the idea of Canadian nationalism and to challenge perceptions of Canada as merely a British colony. His efforts helped bolster support for the Canada First movement, as he emphasized the need for Canada to
assert itself as an independent nation with its own unique heritage and aspirations.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Taylor Denison III, FRSC
Denison was a Canadian lawyer, military officer and writer. He was born in Toronto to Colonel George Taylor Denison II, and educated at Upper Canada College. In 1861, he was called to the bar, and was from 1865 to 1867 a member of the city council. From the first, he took a prominent part in the organization of the military forces of Canada, joining the 1st Volunteer Militia Troop of Cavalry of York County (later The Governor General’s Body Guard) as a cornet in 1854 eventually becoming a lieutenant-colonel in the active militia in 1866. He saw active service during the Fenian raids of 1866, and during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Denison was one of the founders of the Canada First movement, which did much to shape the national aspirations from 1870 to 1878, and was a consistent supporter of imperial federation and of preferential trade between Great Britain and her colonies
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