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Joseph Howe was born on December 13, 1804 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was the son of John Howe and Mary Edes at Halifax and inherited from his loyalist father an undying love for Great Britain and her Empire.
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Joseph Howe was born on December 13, 1804 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He was the son of John Howe and Mary Edes at Halifax and inherited from his loyalist father an undying love for Great Britain and her Empire.
His formal schooling was irregular and at the age of 13 he became an apprentice in his father's printing shop.
In 1828 he purchased the Nova Scotian, which became one of the most influential newspapers in Canada.
Howe pleaded his own case and won it.
In 1856 Howe was reelected after a short period out of the Assembly and served in opposition from 1857 to 1860.
During the negotiations with Canada over confederation Howe was on imperial service as commissioner to ensure that the fisheries clauses of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 were being observed.
He entered the lists against the confederation project in 1865, criticizing the terms, although not the principle, of federation with Canada.
He led the anticonfederate forces in an unsuccessful mission to Great Britain in 1867 to forestall the project and won a sweeping victory in the 1867 elections, when 36 anticonfederates were returned in the 38 seats allotted to Nova Scotia in the Dominion Parliament.
Later, realizing that further opposition was useless, Howe bent his efforts to secure "better terms" for Nova Scotia in the federation agreement.
He died on June 1, three weeks after taking office.
Howe was the best-loved Nova Scotian of his day and is still a legend in the Atlantic province.
While he had published some poems during his life and had been preparing others for publication, it was not until a year after his death that his family made them public through the publishing of Poems and Essays.
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This success led to his election to the Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1836, and soon after, he became leader of the Reform Party.
Prior to his marriage, Howe had a son by a woman other than his later wife, whose identity is unknown.
This first child was Edward Howe, who lived with his mother in a home Howe maintained in Maitland, Nova Scotia.
Joseph Howe later married Catherine Susan Ann McNab, daughter of Captain John McNab, Nova Scotia Regiment of Fencible Infantry, on February 2, 1828.