Thomas Wesley Jackson

Thomas Wesley Jackson (6 June 1859 – 26 February 1934) was a Canadian politician. He served on the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories for Qu'Appelle from 1884 to 1886.[1]

Thomas Wesley Jackson
Member of the Council of the Northwest Territories for Qu'Appelle
In office
13 August 1884 – September 1886
Succeeded byWilliam Dell Perley
Personal details
Born(1859-06-06)6 June 1859
Downsview, Canada West
Died26 February 1934(1934-02-26) (aged 74)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Political partyIndependent
Occupationlawyer, farmer

Jackson was born in Downsview, Canada West, of Irish ancestry. He worked as a lawyer for a time in Chatham, Ontario, before moving to the Qu'Appelle Valley in 1880. At Qu'Appelle he would farm and get involved with the railway, eventually raising to the position of President of the Qu'Appelle and Wood Mountain Railway.[2] He was also a justice of the peace.[3]

He was elected in 1883 to the Council of the North West Territories, and resigned his seat in September 1886, owing to his activities as president of the railway. He later resided at Indian Head, Saskatchewan.[4] He died at Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934.[5]

Electoral results

1884 election
13 August 1883 by-election
[1] Name Vote %
  Thomas Wesley Jackson 344 75.44%
  William Robert Bell 112 24.56%
Total Votes 456 100%

1885 election
1885 Northwest Territories election
[1] Name Vote % Elected
  Thomas Wesley Jackson 440 34.22% X
  William Dell Perley 301 23.41% X
  Angus McKay 290 22.55%
  Leslie Gordon 137 10.65%
  Charles Edmund Phipps 118 9.17%
Total Votes 1,286 100%

References
  1. "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
  2. Robertson, John Palmerston (1887), A political manual of the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Call Printing Company, retrieved 19 February 2014
  3. "Yorkton's Corporate History". yorktonthisweek.com. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  4. Northwest Territories (1898). Ordinances of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Territorial Printer. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  5. "Person Details for Thomas Wesley Jackson, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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