Mair, Charles National Historic Person
Lanark, Ontario
Portrait
© Expired; Credit: William James Topley / Library and Archives Canada / PA-025944
Address :
73 George Street, Lanark, Ontario
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1937-05-20
Life Date:
1838 to 1927
Other Name(s):
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Mair, Charles
(Designation Name)
Importance:
Journalist, poet, advocate of western expansion
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: 1948 in auditorium of Lanark Town Hall / 1984 Lanark Post Office 73 George Street, Lanark, Ontario
Poet, journalist, western pioneer and civil servant, Author of Tecumseh, 1886. A founder of the Canada First Movement, 1868, and an advocate of western expansion, he participated in the Red River Insurrection, 1869-70, and in the Northwest Rebellion, 1885
Existing plaque: outside wall of the Lanark Post Office 73 Geroge Street, Lanark, Ontario
Journalist, poet, advocate of western expansion, and an original member of the Canada First movement, Mair was born at Lanark, Upper Canada. A controversial figure during the Red River uprising (1869-1870), he was subsequently a pioneer businessman of Portage la Prairie, Prince Albert, and Kelowna, and an official of the Dominion immigration service. His literary works included Dreamland and Other Poems, Tecumseh, and Through the Mackenzie Basin. He died at Victoria, B.C.