Adams G Archibald., a British colonial statesman, born at Truro, Nova Scotia, May 18, 1814. He studied law in Halifax, was called to the bar in 1830, was elected a member of the legislature of Nova Scotia for the county of Colchester in 1851, and was reelected in 1855. Next year he became solicitor general in the government of Mr. Young, then a leader of the liberal party, and was reelected to the legislature by acclamation. Mr. Archibald had a .large share in breaking up the mining monopoly which, under a grant of George III. to the duke of York, held all the coal and other mines of Nova Scotia, under the name of the general mining company. In 18G3 he carried a bill through the legislature of Nova Scotia which substituted for the universal suffrage a somewhat restricted franchise. He was one of the delegates to the intercolonial convention held at Quebec in 1864; and his advocacy of that scheme of union cost him his seat when he next appeared for reelection. In the cabinet of Sir John Young, which was formed in 1867, he was president of the council and secretary of state for the provinces, and in 1871 he was appointed lieutenant governor of Manitoba. This office he resigned in the beginning of 1872.