Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2020
This vintage 1842 signed document is more than 175 years old and bears the original signature of Sir Charles Bagot, the first Governor General of the Province of Canada. Bagot, who was born on September 23, 1781, served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, Britain’s top diplomatic envoy to the United States from 1815-20. He subsequently served as British Ambassador to Russia, and then to the Netherlands. After a 10-year hiatus from diplomatic service, Bagot succeeded Lord Sydenham as governor general of the newly proclaimed Province of Canada as a result of his diplomatic knowledge of the U.S. Appointed to the position by Queen Victoria on September 27, 1841, Bagot arrived in the Canadian capital of Kingston on January 10, 1842 and took office two days later. Under Bagot, leading Canadian colonial politicians Robert Baldwin and Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine were allowed to form a ministry, on the basis of their parliamentiary majority, in what was the beginning of what became known as representative government in Canada. Bagot resigned his post in January 1843 and died four months later at Alwington House in Kingston, too ill to return to the United Kingdom.
Bagot placed a large bold black ink fountain pen signature on the upper left side of this 13” x 8 1/8” paper document from 1842. The verso of the document is signed by Joseph Signay, who has signed as “Jos. Ev. Cath. De Quebec”, (Catholic Bishop of Quebec).
The document displays expected aging and has a vertical fold crease in the middle, and three horizontal fold creases, including a pronounced crease in the middle.
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