Editing Charles Tupper (section)

===Early years as High Commissioner, 1883–1887===
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Tupper remained committed to leaving Ottawa, however, and in May 1883, he moved to London to become unpaid High Commissioner, though he did not surrender his ministerial position at the time.<ref name="ODNB"/> However, he soon faced criticism that the two posts were incompatible, and in May 1884 he resigned from cabinet and the House of Commons and became full-time paid High Commissioner.<ref name="ODNB"/>

During his time as High Commissioner, Tupper vigorously defended Canada's rights.<ref name="ODNB"/> Although he was not a full [[plenipotentiary]], he represented Canada at a [[Paris]] conference in 1883, where he openly disagreed with the British delegation; and in 1884 he was allowed to conduct negotiations for a Canadian commercial treaty with [[Spain]].<ref name="ODNB"/>

Tupper was concerned with promoting [[immigration to Canada]] and made several tours of various countries in [[Europe]] to encourage their citizens to move to Canada.<ref name="ODNB"/> A report in 1883 acknowledges the work of Charles Tupper:
<blockquote>As directing emigration from the United Kingdom and also the Continent, his work has been greatly valuable; and especially in reference to the arrangements made by him on the Continent and in Ireland. The High Commissioner for Canada, Sir Charles Tupper, has been aided during the past year by the same Emigration Agents of the Department in the United Kingdom as in 1882, namely, Mr. John Dyke, Liverpool; Mr. Thomas Grahame, Glasgow; Mr. Charles Foy, Belfast; Mr. Thomas Connolly, Dublin, and Mr. J.W. Down, Bristol. On the [[European continent]], Dr. Otto Hahn, of Reutlingen, has continued to act as Agent in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/reports/report1883.html|title=Immigrants to Canada – Immigration Report of 1883|first=Marj|last=Kohli}}</ref></blockquote>

In 1883, Tupper convinced [[William Ewart Gladstone]]'s government to exempt Canadian cattle from the general British ban on importing American cattle by demonstrating that Canadian cattle were free of disease.<ref name="ODNB"/>

His other duties as High Commissioner included: putting Canadian exporters in contact with British importers; negotiating loans for the Canadian government and the CPR; helping to organize the [[Colonial and Indian Exhibition]] of 1886; arranging for a subsidy for the mail ship from [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], to the [[Orient]]; and lobbying on behalf of a British-Pacific cable along the lines of the [[transatlantic telegraph cable]] and for a faster transatlantic [[steam ship]].<ref name="ODNB"/>

Tupper was present at the founding meeting of the [[Imperial Federation League]] in July 1884, where he argued against a resolution which said that the only options open to the British Empire were [[Imperial Federation]] or disintegration.<ref name="ODNB"/> Tupper believed that a form of limited federation was possible and desirable.<ref name="ODNB"/>