Charles Dalton

Charles Dalton ( born June 9, 1850 in Tignish, Prince Edward Iceland, † December 28, 1933 ) was a Canadian businessman, politician and philanthropist. From 1930 until his death he was vice- governor of the province of Prince Edward Iceland.

Biography

Dalton worked after leaving school, first as a farmer and later as a pharmacist. He is one of the pioneers of the breeding of silver foxes for extracting silver fox skins. In 1887 he built on a farm and was mainly attributable to that developed the province into a world- leading center for fur farming. With the sale of his farm in 1914 he made a fortune and bought the newspaper Charlottetown Guardian. Mainly Dalton devoted but charity. During the First World War he donated the Canadian government an ambulance and funded a school in Tignish. After his daughter had died of tuberculosis, he devoted himself to the fight against this disease and financed the construction of a sanatorium. In 1916 he was admitted to the Gregoriusorden due to his services.

As a member of the Prince Edward Iceland Conservative Party candidate Dalton in 1912 with success in the elections to the Legislative Assembly. In 1915 he succeeded in re-election in 1919 but was deselected. By 1917, he was Minister without portfolio in the province Cabinet by John Alexander Mathieson. Governor General Lord Willingdon sworn Dalton on 29 November 1930 as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Iceland. This prestigious position which he held slightly more than three years until his death.