The Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper
Buried at: St. John’s Cemetery, Halifax
Date of Birth 1821-07-02 Place of birth: Amherst, Nova Scotia
Date of Death1915-10-30 Place of death: Bexleyheath, England
Cause of death: Heart failure
Sir Charles Tupper. 6th Prime Minister of Canada,
Canadian Prime Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia, Father of Confederation
Sir Charles Tupper Canadian Prime Minister and Premier of Nova Scotia, Father of Confederation
Interment Information
On October 30, 1915, in Bexleyheath, Tupper died of heart failure. He was the last of the original Fathers of Confederation to die, and had lived the longest life of any Canadian prime minister, at 94 years, four months. His body was returned to Canada on board the HMS Blenheim (the same vessel that had carried the body of Tupper’s colleague, Sir John Thompson to Halifax when Thompson died in England in 1894) and he was buried in St. John’s Cemetery, Halifax in Halifax following a state funeral with a mile-long procession.
