Thomas_Crawford_(Canadian_politician)

Thomas Crawford (Canadian politician)

Thomas Crawford (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician

For other people named Thomas Crawford, see Thomas Crawford (disambiguation).

Thomas Crawford (August 14, 1847 – February 9, 1932) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1907-1911 and served as Conservative MLA for Toronto Northwest and Toronto West from 1894 to 1924.

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He was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland in 1847,[1] the son of James Crawford, and was educated in Inniskillen.[1] He came to Toronto with his family around 1865 and began work with the Northern Railway Company. In 1868, he went into business with his father, a cattle merchant, later forming his own company which exported cattle to the United States and Britain.[2] In 1878, he married Isabella Fyfe.[1] From 1892 to 1894, he represented Ward 5 on Toronto city council.[2]

Crawford served in the provincial cabinet as Minister Without Portfolio from 1923 to 1924. He resigned his seat in 1924 to become registrar of deeds for the city of Toronto.[2] He died in 1932 and was interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.[3][2]

References

  1. [1]
    The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897 JA Gemmill
  2. [2]
    Dale, Clare A (1992). Whose servant I am" : speakers of the assemblies of the province of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1992. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library. pp. 199–203.
  3. [3]
    "Person Details for Thomas Crawford, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947" — FamilySearch.org". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.


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