Editing Charles Tupper (section)

== Legacy and recognition ==
[[File:Coat of arms of Charles Tupper.svg|thumbnail|170px|Coat of arms of Charles Tupper.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/7352183854|title=Coat-of-arms of the Honourable Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., GCMG, CB / Armoiries de l'honorable sir Charles Tupper, baronnet, GCMG, CB|date=October 5, 2010}}</ref>]]

Tupper will be most remembered as a [[Father of Confederation]], and his long career as a federal cabinet minister, rather than his brief time as prime minister. As the [[Premier of Nova Scotia]] from 1864 to 1867, he led [[Nova Scotia]] into [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]] and persuaded [[Joseph Howe]] to join the new federal government, bringing an end to the anti-Confederation movement in Nova Scotia.

In their 1999 study of the Canadian Prime Ministers through [[Jean Chrétien]], [[J.L. Granatstein]] and [[Norman Hillmer]] included the results of a survey of Canadian historians ranking the Prime Ministers. Tupper ranked No. 16 out of the 20 up to that time, due to his extremely short tenure in which he was unable to accomplish anything of significance. Historians noted that despite Tupper's elderly age, he showed a determination and spirit during his brief time as prime minister that almost beat Laurier in the 1896 election.<ref>Granatstein and Hillman, Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders, p. 45</ref>

[[Mount Tupper]] in the Canadian Rockies and the [[Sir Charles Tupper Building]] in Ottawa are named for him. The Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building is the central building of the [[Dalhousie Medical School]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia.