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Adams George Archibald started his education with a relative in Truro and later studied under Thomas McCulloch* at Pictou Academy....

Adams George Archibald, one of the Fathers of Confederation, was a lawyer, office holder, politician and judge; born 3 May in Truro, Nova Scotia.

He was a Canadian lawyer and politician, and a father of Confederation.

Adams George Archibald started his education with a relative in Truro and later studied under Thomas McCulloch* at Pictou Academy.

He was a Nova Scotia Father of Confederation, born in Truro in He practised law and at 37, was elected as a Liberal member of the Nova.

Sir Adams George Archibald, KCMG, PC (May 3, – December 14, )was a Canadian lawyer and politician, and a Father of Confederation.

Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Archibald, Adams George

ARCHIBALD, Sir ADAMS GEORGE (1814–1892), Canadian statesman, the son of Samuel Archibald and Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Archibald, came of an old Scottish family which had settled in the north of Ireland, and thence migrated to Nova Scotia in 1761.

His grandfather, James Archibald, had been judge of the court of common pleas for the county of Colchester in Nova Scotia. He was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, on 18 May 1814, and educated at Pictou College; thence he proceeded to Halifax and read for the law in the chambers of William Sutherland, afterwards recorder of Halifax.

He was admitted an attorney of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in 1838, and called to the bar of the latter colony in 1839, for some years devoting himself to the practice of his profession.

Archibald entered public life in 1851, when he was elected to the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia as member for Colchester, and du