ABSTRACT
Sir Edmund Head in New Brunswick was also very far from being a mere figure-head. He regarded his responsibility to the Government at home for the administration of the colony as real and important and was ready if necessary, as has been shown in an earlier chapter, to act upon this view even at the cost of difficulties with his Council. The Executive Council were entitled to make representations to the Secretary of State but he as Lieutenant-Governor could take his own line unless and until the Secretary of State decided against him.3 Sir John Harvey in Nova Scotia, without the intellectual force of Elgin or of Head, made in Lord Grey's opinion insufficient use of his moderating power 4 -the fact of course being that Joseph Howe was supreme in influence and in capacity.
