William Lyon Mackenzie

William Lyon Mackenzie ( born March 12, 1795 in Dundee, Scotland, † August 28, 1861 in Toronto ) was a Scottish- Canadian politician and the first mayor of Toronto in 1834. During the Upper Canada resistor 1837 Mackenzie played an important role as a leader. He is the grandfather of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Life

Mackenzie came in 1795 as the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Mackenzie in Scotland to the world. His father died three weeks after his birth. William Lyon Mackenzie was brought up by his deeply religious mother and attended by five years, the Grammar School in Dundee. At the age of 15 years, the well-read Mackenzie wrote articles for the local newspaper and was a member of a learned society. Due to lack of jobs emigrated 1820 with a friend to Canada, where he first got a job at the Montreal Herald. 1822 Mackenzie married in Montreal Isabel Baxter ( 1805-1873 ), with whom he had 13 children.

1824 Mackenzie founded his own newspaper, the Colonial Advocate. The newspaper was designed as a mouthpiece for the 9th parliamentary elections of Upper Canada. After financial difficulties Mackenzie moved the newspaper to York - now Toronto. Since the paper had only 825 subscribers stopped the financial difficulties, so that Mackenzie had to adjust the pressure of the newspaper between July and December 1825. Despite these difficulties, Mackenzie gained political notoriety and became chairman of the founding in the 1830s, Reform Party of Upper Canada. He held this position until 1838.

On March 27, 1834, Mackenzie first mayor of Toronto, which was renamed on March 6 of the same year of " York " on "Toronto". He sat down at the time by John Rolph against. Mackenzie's term of office shall be considered unsuccessful, as he failed to deal with a large part of the priority problems of the city. Just a year later he was replaced Robert Baldwin Sullivan from as mayor. In the following years, William Lyon Mackenzie engaged in the parliamentary elections and made himself a radical reformers in Upper Canada a name. His commitment culminated in 1837 in the leadership of the rebellion of Upper Canada.

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