keen policitcal activitw'o Sirife be ween peliticel rivals was int-ens :e an 7351 at times, bi‘tterg Probably the last duel on file; ” W13 veg fihat fought with pistols between.Edward

Falmer andG Lxeorg-‘e Soles in 1851, when the latter was Fremier of ”the Colony. Duelling being: then, as new, illegal, honour was apparently satisfied by each firing wide 02? the mark, and thereafter both confirmed amicablrr in public life, theugh still opposed to each at her 9011+ «ice 11y, ant} both being delegates to the Confedeie‘tion Center encee.

.‘anerd Palmer married Isabella Tremain, daughter of Benjamin Tremain of Quebec. 0!: this union there were 1. "our daughters and two sons, one of the latter being H.James Valmer, himself Premier of the Province for a. time in 1911.

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