Reluctant relations: 1886–1939[edit] Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Right Honourable George Reid, Premier of New South Wales and later Prime Minister of Australia, at Hawarden Castle, Wales, at the time of Queen Victorias Jubilee, alongside W. E. Gladstone, the former British Prime Minister and owner of the Hawarden Castle estate, and Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand The earliest, most notable connections between the two nations was the deportation of Canadian rebels who instigated an uprising in Upper and Lower Canada to Australia. A total of 154 Canadians from Upper Canada state prisoners were sent to Australian shores. Those involved in the Upper Canada rebellions, were sent to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). There are two monuments in Hobart commemorating the Canadian convict presence in Tasmania. One is at Sandy Bay (unveiled by The Honourable Douglas Harkness, former Minister of National Defence of Canada on 30 September 1970) and the other stands in Princes Park, Battery Point (unveiled on 12 December 1995 by High Commissioner Brian Schumacher).
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