Thomas Cantley Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Thomas Cantley
Riding:Pictou
Predecessor:Edward Mortimer Macdonald
Successor:Henry Byron McCulloch
Term Start:October 1925
Term End:July 1935
Office2:Member of the Senate of Canada, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia division
Term Start2:July 1935
Term End2:February 1945
Birth Date:1857 4, df=yes
Birth Place:New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
Death Place:New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse:Maria Fraser
m. 1883, d. 14 April 1911[1]
Profession:Manufacturer
Party:Conservative

Thomas Cantley (19 April 1857  - 24 February 1945) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and became a steel manufacturer and participated in numerous corporate directorships.

The son of Charles Cantley and Catherine Fraser,[2] Cantley attended school at New Glasgow, then performed military service with the British Expeditionary Force, attaining the rank of colonel. In 1919, he was granted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dalhousie University.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Pictou riding in the 1925 general election after an unsuccessful campaign there in 1921. He was re-elected to the House of Commons in 1926 and 1930.

Cantley was then appointed to the Senate on 20 July 1935 and remained in that role until his death on 24 February 1945.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Normandin, A.L. . Canadian Parliamentary Guide . 1932 .
  2. Book: Johnson, J.K. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada.