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Edward Blake 1833-1912
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted December, 2010
Photo Source - Wikipedia
Plaque Location
The County of Middlesex
The City of London
Inside the Middlesex Court House
on the southwest corner of Dundas Street and Ridout Street
on the wall in the reception area
Coordinates: N 42 58.926 W 81 15.261 |
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Plaque Text
Lawyer, leading member of the Canada First movement, and statesman, Edward Blake was born in Middlesex County, Upper Canada. He was the second premier of Ontario (1871-2) and a member of the House of Commons for twenty-two years, serving as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Alexander Mackenzie and as leader of the federal Liberal party (1880-1887). An authority on the constitution and exponent of provincial rights, he argued a number of important cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He sat in the British parliament as an Irish Nationalist (1892-1907). He died in Toronto.
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Archibald Byron Macallum 1859-1934
Sir Arthur William Currie 1875-1933
Sir George William Ross 1841-1914
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