Thomas Mayne Daly

Thomas Mayne Daly, PC (August 16, 1852 – June 24, 1911) was a Canadian politician. Born in Stratford, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Thomas Mayne Daly (1827–1885) and Helen McLaren (Ferguson) Daly, his father was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Perth North. He was educated as a lawyer and was called to the Bar of Upper Canada in 1876. He practiced law in Stratford until 1881. In 1881, he moved to Brandon, Manitoba and practiced law. In 1882, he was elected the first mayor of Brandon. In 1887, he ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Selkirk. A Liberal-Conservative he was elected in 1891. He did not run in 1900. He was defeated again in 1908. From 1892 to 1896, he was the Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, in the cabinet of Sir John Abbott, becoming the first federal Cabinet Minister from Manitoba. In 1896, he was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (Acting) and Secretary of State of Canada (Acting). In 1903, he was appointed Police Magistrate of Winnipeg and in 1909 was appointed a Judge of the first Juvenile Court in Canada. A well-known tale recounts how Calgary lawyer Paddy Nolan's physical resemblance to Daly often led to the two being confused for each other. Once, after Daly had jokingly angered a legal client of Nolan's by impersonating the lawyer, Nolan got his revenge by refusing to grant a patent to a prospective homesteader, insisting that the Ministry of the Interior would require a bribe in order to look at his file - leading to Daly sending Nolan a note several days later about the "bad name" that the Ministry was getting due to his hijinx.^[1]

References

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament

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•  • e Superintendents-General of Indian Affairs
Langevin · Howe · Aikins (acting) · Gibbs · Campbell · Laird · Scott (acting) · Mills · Macdonald · White · Macdonald (acting) · Dewdney · Daly · H. Macdonald · Scott (acting) · Sifton · Laurier (acting) · Oliver · Rogers · Roche · Meighen · Lougheed · Stewart · Stevens (acting) · Bennett (acting) · Stewart · Mackenzie · Murphy · Crerar1
1The offices of Minister of Immigration and Colonization, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Mines and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs were abolished and the office of Minister of Mines and Resources was created and came in force on December 1, 1936.