Edgar Dewdney

Edgar Dewdney , CP, (November 5th 1835 - August 8th 1916) was a Canadian politician born in the Devonshire in England. It was useful like Lieutenant-governor of the province of Colombia-British and of the Territoires of the North-West.

Career

After obtaining its diploma of Engineer, he emigrated as far as British Columbia in 1859. He contracted a sterile marriage with Jane Shaw Moir, girl of a grower of The of Ceylon.

Dewdney begins its career as land-surveyor for the railroad, and supervises the casdastrage for this reason New Westminster. In 1865, it is named by the Lieutenant-governor Frederick Seymour with the supervision of the construction of a road making it possible to the merchants of the coast to benefit from the budding trade of the gold-fields of the interior. Although used for only one short period, of the sections of the Piste Dewdney remain to date used for the Randonnée.

Policy

Dewdney is implied in the colonial political life, and represents the district of Kootenay of 1868 with 1869 with the legislative Assemblée of the Colombia-British. After British Columbia had joined the Canadian Confédération in 1871, it becomes in 1872 parliamentary representative preserving of the district of Yale. It is named in the cabinet of the Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald in 1879, where he is Commissaire with the Indian businesses for the Territoires of the North-West until in 1888.

Macdonald makes it name Lieutenant-governor of the Territories of the North-West in 1881, but Dewdney, although he resigned of his seat of deputy, in remainder police chief with the Indian businesses. From the particular administrative nature of the Territories, Dewdney was in fact the chief of the government. Its action most outstanding for this period will be perhaps the debatable decision to move to it capital of Battleford to Regina in 1883 - a site without water neither trees nor topography, but where Dewdney had before bought a notable quantity of adjacent grounds to the railway line the Canadian Pacific.

After having been useful as Lieutenant-governor, Dewdney is again elected member of the Parliament, for the district of Assiniboia East (in the south-east of current the Saskatchewan of 1888 with 1891. It was also used during this period as Minister of Interior Department and superintendant for the Indian Businesses. In 1892, he becomes Lieutenant-governor of Colombia-British, posts that he preserved until in 1897. It took its political retirement in 1900, after a defeat at the polls with New Westminster.

With died of its Jane wife in 1909, Dewdney remaria with White Kemeys-Tynte, girl of the Colonel Charles John Kemeys-Tynte de Halswell (Somerset).

Heritage

the site of Regina, capital of the Saskatchewan;
an important axis East-West in this city, Dewdney Which occurred, owes him its name. It is in particular there that are the seat of the provincial government as well as the local detachment of GRC.

External bond

Biography on the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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