A member of Brown’s Party (Nickname)
Four letters, First letter is “C”, last letter is “T”
Montreal Financier, an early supporter of colonial union.
Four letters. _A_T
Stalemate! (“The ‘real’ Father of Confederation?”)
8 letters _NAD(?)o _
Thanks in Advance.
Sounds like homework to me.
Yeah, it does. Too bad. I like Canaidan history. 
Yeah, it’s home work, I figured out Montreal Finacer, it’s Galt
Stalemate! (“The ‘real’ Father of Confederation?”)
8 letters _NAD(?)o _
I’m pretty sure the above is
EAD_O _
If that helps.
I still haven’t found the Nick Name one.
re the nickname - you’re sure it’s a “C” and not a “G”? A member of the Upper Canada Reform party who supported Brown was called a Grit, a term from one of Brown’s speeches.
I’m sure it;s a “C”, because the clue that gave me the C was: “Canada’s longest Rail way in the 1860’s (abbr)” and it was 2 letters, so my answer was CP Rail. Although I am less than 100% sure of that answer because Canada Pacific Rail is usually abbr CPR. But I am unaware of anyother major railways at that time.
Then again, CPR was built to get BC in confederation which wasn’t in the 1860’s, it was in 1871, and they didn’t get started on the railway until later.
There is a long-standing tradition on the SDMB to tell people to do their own homework. Just so you’re aware.
Good luck.
Well, in deference to Ginger, I won’t go any further, except to point out that the Canadian Pacific did not exist until 1880. You’re right that it was built as part of the terms of union with B.C., but that agreement gave the federal gov’t something like 25 years to do the building.
There were other Canadian railways prior to the Canadian Pacific. Better keep looking for the answer to the railway clue.
Like I’m some Grande Dame… teehee!
Did you find your answers, fluffball?
Could it really be a G, with the railway being the Grand Trunk?
This being homework, you can confirm that yourself.
oooh, Elvis, you’re gonna get Ginger after you! 
But that’s what I thought, too.
I’ve never heard of the Grand Trunk Railway, but it does fit the clue, and the time period better than CP, so I’ve got that clue done.
So does any one have any idea about the stalemate clue?
I think so, but you should be able to work it out from the clue itself, and the letters you’ve filled in: “EAD_O _”
Hint - it’s not a person, but a state of affairs.
Headroom! Max Headroom!
It’s Deadlock!!!
But I don’t like getting ans’s through trial and error 
At least I just had to test the letter “D” to get dead lock.
Yeah, I filled in the whole crossword. Now I get a citizen ship point (citizen ship points are a stupid thing that the High School Social Studies/History teachers think we need to do to make our selves better citizens)
What, you prefer having folks on a message board just give you the answer? :rolleyes:
At any rate, that’s what I thought it was - referring to the series of governments that fell in the Canadian Assembly from 1860 onwards, since the parties were so evenly balanced between Conservative-Bleu and Reform-Rouge - forced both sides to consider Confederation as a way to break the deadlock.
That’s a p-p-p-person, n-n-not a s-s-s-state of affairs!
I was looking for the name of Brown’s Wife or Butler, or second cousin twice removed who may have given brown the idea to join the great coalition, because I thought that it was refering to someone who broke the stalemate (Brown joined up with MacDonald/Cartier with the proviso that there be confederation), then I started looking for the same with regaurds to lord Durham, because he created the system that caused all the problems, I never thought the answer would be a synonym of the clue.