Richard Hardisty
Richard Charles Hardisty | |
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| Senator from Edmonton, North-West Territories | |
| In office 23 February 1888 – 15 October 1889 | |
| Nominated by | Sir John A. Macdonald |
| Appointed by | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne |
| Preceded by | established |
| Succeeded by | Sir James Alexander Lougheed |
Richard Charles Hardisty (3 March 1831 – 18 October 1889) was a Hudson's Bay Company official at Edmonton, and a politician in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
He married Eliza McDougall on 21 September 1866 while he was a Hudson's Bay Company employee.[1]
He ran as an Independent Conservative in the 1887 Canadian federal election and finished a close second in the Alberta (Provisional District). He lost to Donald Watson Davis.
He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of John A. Macdonald on 23 February 1888, the first Metis Senator. He died just a year later while fording a river on horseback on October 18, 1889. His replacement in the Senate was Sir James Lougheed, who would marry his niece Belle Hardisty in 1891, and the grandfather of Peter Lougheed.[2]
The village of Hardisty, Alberta, is named in his honour, as is Mount Hardisty in Jasper National Park.[3]
References
- ^ Sanderson, Kay (1999). 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Calgary: Famous Five Foundation. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
- ^ MacEwan, Grant (1975). Calgary cavalcade from Fort to fortune. Saskatoon, Canada: Western Producer Book Service. pp. 77–80. ISBN 978-0-91930-650-9. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 62.
Further reading
- MacGregor, James Grierson (1978). Senator Hardisty's Prairies, 1849-1889. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books. ISBN 0919306853.
External links
- Richard Hardisty – Parliament of Canada biography
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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