David Christie

David Christie, PC ( born October 1, 1818 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † December 14, 1880 in Paris, Ontario) was a Canadian politician.

Christie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1833 and came with his family to Canada. In 1852 he was elected to the fourth term in the House of Representatives of the Province of Canada, where he served as an elected Member of Parliament in the following two election periods to June 1861. He was regularly in contact with George Brown, of the newspaper The Globe published in Toronto.

In the fall of 1849 David Christie was one of the founders of the political movement of liberal Clear Grit rural population. Together with other related parties of the movement he advocated, which would be chosen, for example, a greater number of government officials. Also, the term Clear Grit itself goes according to the instructions of Charles Dent back to Christie. He refers to a discussion between Christie and George Brown, in the Christie reformer, the comparable Brown lagging behind the times, with the term " We want only men who are Clear Grit" describes (English about: We only want people who like clean sand are. ).

1858 Christie was elected the province of Canada in the Upper House ( Legislative Council ). In 1867 he was appointed as a representative from Erie, Ontario, in the new Canadian Senate, where he represented the Liberal Party of Canada until his death in 1880. With the appointment to the Senate he was allowed to carry the honorary title of the Hon. From 1873 to 1874 he served as a member of the Canadian government in the Office of the Secretary of State for the connection to the Government of the British colonial power. From 1874 to 1878, he held the position of Senate speaker. He died in 1880 in Paris, Ontario, to the consequences of the disease to gangrene.