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Memorable Manitobans: Aquila Walsh (1823-1885)
Civil servant.
Born at Charlotteville, Ontario on 15 May 1823, he was educated in London District Grammar School and became a civil engineer. He was first elected MLA in 1861. In 1867 he was elected to the Commons. He aspired to the speakership, the first of a number of appointments he hoped to receive for his loyalty to the Conservative Party. Finally, in 1882, he was appointed commissioner of Crown lands for Manitoba and the North-West Territories. He then started to complain about his salary and continued to do so until his accidental death in Winnipeg on 6 March 1885.
More information:
Aquila Walsh, Dictionary of Canadian Biography XI, 909-10.
Sources:
A Political Manual of the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories by J. P. Robertson, Winnipeg: Call Printing Company, 1887.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Page revised: 18 July 2010
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