Manitoba, 1884. He is a bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba, and a
member of the Protestant Board of Education of that province. He was
president of the first Conservative Association formed in Brandon in
July, 1882; is now vice-president for Selkirk of the Conservative Union
of Manitoba, and president of the Liberal-Conservative Association of
the county of Brandon. During Mr. Daly’s residence in Ontario he took an
active part in public affairs, and was for several years quartermaster
of the 28th Perth battalion of militia, and retired from the service in
1881 with the rank of captain. He occupied the office of president of
the Young Men’s Conservative Association, which was formed in Stratford
in 1878, and during the years 1880-81 he held a seat in the town council
of Stratford; and was a member of, and subsequently became the chairman
of, the school board of that place. In politics Mr. Daly is a
Liberal-Conservative, and in religion an adherent of the Church of
England. He was married on the 4th of June, 1879, at Stratford, Ontario,
to Margaret Annabella, eldest daughter of P. R. Jarvis.
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=Borden, Frederick William=, B.A., M.D., M.P., Canning, Nova Scotia, was
born on the 14th May, 1847, at Canard, Kings county, N.S. His father,
Jonathan Borden, M.D. (whose great grandfather, Samuel Borden, was one
of the original grantees of the township of Cornwallis, in the reign of
King George III., A.D. 1764), practised medicine at Canard for thirty
years. Maria Frances Brown, his mother, was a descendant on the maternal
side from the family of Major Dennison, one of the agents from
Connecticut who in May, 1759, visited the districts of Grand Pré and
Canard, in Kings county, from which the Acadians had been expatriated,
with a view to re-settling the said districts with a colony from that
state. Her brother, Dr. E. L. Brown, sat in the legislature of Nova
Scotia from 1847 till 1859, and from 1863 till 1871, having been
defeated in 1859 by another brother, J. L. Brown, who held the seat
until 1863. Both parents are dead. Mr. Borden graduated in arts at the
University of King’s College, Windsor, N.S., in June, 1866, and at
Harvard University in medicine in July, 1868. He was a member of King’s
College University Rifle Corps; was appointed assistant surgeon of the
68th battalion active militia 22nd October, 1869, surgeon on the 22nd
October, 1879, and principal medical officer of the brigade camp at
Aldershot in September, 1887. Dr. Borden has been agent of the Bank of
Nova Scotia at Canning since September, 1882. He was elected to
represent Kings county in the House of Commons at Ottawa in February,
1874; and re-elected in September, 1875. He was an unsuccessful
candidate in June, 1882, but was again elected in February, 1887, by a
majority of 448 votes. The doctor has practised his profession
(medicine) continuously at Canning since September, 1869, whither he had
removed from Canard (the old homestead), about four miles distant. He
married, first, Julia Maude Clarke, on 1st October, 1873. She died April
2nd, 1880. He married again, on June 12th, 1884, Bessie Blanche Clarke,
daughter of John H. Clarke, of Canning, N.S. Her mother’s maiden name
was Elizabeth Tupper, and she was a daughter of Augustus Tupper, who
contested Kings county several times unsuccessfully for a seat in the
Nova Scotian Assembly, and who was an uncle of Sir Charles Tupper.
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=Silver, William Chamberlain=, President of the Chamber of Commerce,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 3rd,