Thomas Mayne Daly
Thomas Mayne Daly PC, KC | |
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| Member of theCanadian Parliament forSelkirk | |
| In office 1887–1896 | |
| Preceded by | Hugh McKay Sutherland |
| Succeeded by | John Alexander MacDonell |
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| Born | August 16, 1852 Stratford,Canada West |
| Died | June 24, 1911(aged 58) Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada |
| Political party | Liberal-Conservative |
| Relations | Thomas Mayne Daly,father John Corry Wilson Daly,grandfather |
| Cabinet | Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs (1892–1896) Minister of the Interior (1892–1896) Secretary of State of Canada (Acting) (1896) Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (Acting) (1896) |
Thomas Mayne Daly,PC,KC(August 16, 1852 – June 24, 1911) was a Canadian politician.
Born inStratford,Canada West(nowOntario), the son ofThomas Mayne Daly(1827–1885) and Helen McLaren (Ferguson) Daly, his father was a member of theHouse of Commons of Canadafor the riding ofPerth North.His grandfather,John Corry Wilson Daly,was the first mayor of Stratford.[1]
He was educated as a lawyer and was called to theLaw Society of Upper Canadain 1876. He practised law in Stratford until 1881. In 1881, he moved toBrandon, Manitoba[1]and practised law in partnership withGeorge Robson Coldwell.[2]In 1882, he was elected the first mayor of Brandon. During his first six-month term, Daly initiated a civic development program which allowed for raising $150 000 throughdebentures.He resigned as Mayor in December 1882. In 1884 he was re-elected as the Mayor of Brandon.[1]
In1887,Daly was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the riding ofSelkirkas aLiberal-Conservative.He was reelected in1891.He did not run in1896.He was defeated in1908.[3]He was created aQCby theGovernor GeneralLord Stanleyin 1890.[1]
From 1892 to 1896, he was theMinister of the InteriorandSuperintendent-General of Indian Affairs,in the cabinet of SirJohn Abbott,becoming the first federal Cabinet Minister from Manitoba. In 1896, he wasMinister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (Acting)andSecretary of State of Canada (Acting).[3]
In 1903, he was appointed Police Magistrate of Winnipeg and in 1909 was appointed a Judge of the first Juvenile Court in Canada.[1]
A well-known tale recounts how Calgary lawyerPaddy Nolan's physical resemblance to Daly often led to the two being confused for each other. Once, after Daly had jokingly angered a legal client of Nolan's by impersonating the lawyer, Nolan got his revenge by refusing to grant apatentto a prospective homesteader, insisting that the Ministry of the Interior would require abribein order to look at his file - leading to Daly sending Nolan a note several days later about the "bad name" that the Ministry was getting due to his hijinx.[4]
TheRural Municipality of Dalywas named for him.[5]
Museum
[edit]TheDaly House Museumin Brandon, Manitoba, is located in Thomas Mayne Daly's Brandon home, which was built in 1882. The museum now contains four floors of artifacts and archival materials representative of Brandon's early history.[6]
Archives
[edit]There is a Thomas Mayne Daly fonds atLibrary and Archives Canada.Archival reference number is R4035.
References
[edit]- ^abcdeKendle, John (1998)."Daly, Thomas Mayne (1852-1911)".In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.).Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Vol. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.).University of Toronto Press.
- ^Rea, J. E. (2005)."Coldwell, George Robson".In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.).Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.).University of Toronto Press.
- ^abThomas Mayne Daly – Parliament of Canada biography
- ^Roy St. George Stubbs, Lawyers and Laymen of Western Canada. Toronto, 1939, pp. 171-2.
- ^"Rural Municipality of Daly".Manitoba Municipalities.Manitoba Historical Society.Retrieved25 November2011.
- ^"Daly House Museum".Daly House Museum.Retrieved18 June2011.
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