William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (born March 12, 1795 in Dundee , Scotland , † August 28, 1861 in Toronto ) was a Scottish-Canadian politician and in 1834 the first mayor of Toronto . During the Upper Canada Resistance in 1837 , Mackenzie played an important role as a leader. He is the grandfather of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King .
Life
Mackenzie was born in Scotland in 1795 to Daniel and Elizabeth Mackenzie. His father died three weeks after he was born. William Lyon Mackenzie grew up with his deeply religious mother and attended grammar school in Dundee when she was five . At the age of 15, the well-read Mackenzie wrote articles for the local newspaper and became a member of a learned society . Due to a lack of jobs, he emigrated to Canada with a friend in 1820 , where he first found a job with the Montreal Herald . In 1822 Mackenzie married Isabel Baxter (1805–1873) in Montreal , with whom he had 13 children.
In 1824 Mackenzie founded his own newspaper, the Colonial Advocate . The newspaper was designed as a mouthpiece for the 9th parliamentary elections in Upper Canada . After financial difficulties, Mackenzie moved the newspaper to York - today's Toronto. Since the newspaper had only 825 subscribers, financial troubles continued, so that Mackenzie had to stop printing the newspaper between July and December 1825. Notwithstanding these difficulties, Mackenzie gained political notoriety and became chairman of the Reform Party of Upper Canada , founded in the 1830s . He held this position until 1838.
On March 27, 1834 Mackenzie became first mayor of Toronto, which was renamed on March 6 of the same year from "York" to "Toronto". At that time he prevailed against John Rolph. Mackenzie's tenure is considered unsuccessful as he failed to deal with much of the city's priority problems. A year later, Robert Baldwin Sullivan replaced him as mayor. In the following years, William Lyon Mackenzie was involved in the parliamentary elections and made a name for himself as a radical reformer in Upper Canada. His commitment culminated in 1837 in leading the rebellions of Upper Canada.
literature
- Charles Lindsey: The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie. Toronto CW 1862. ( online here )
Web links
- William Lyon Mackenzie . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
- toronto.ca: Biography - William Lyon MacKenzie
Individual evidence
- ↑ buffalonian.com: The Canadian Rebellion of 1837 ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
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| SURNAME | Mackenzie, William Lyon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish-Canadian politician and first Mayor of Toronto in 1834 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundee , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1861 |
| Place of death | Toronto |