Thomas Wesley Jackson Explained

Thomas Wesley Jackson
Birth Date:1859 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Downsview, Canada West
Death Place:Vancouver, British Columbia
Office:Member of the Council of the Northwest Territories for Qu'Appelle
Term Start:13 August 1884
Term End:September 1886
Successor:William Dell Perley
Party:Independent
Occupation:lawyer, farmer

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]

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. He was also a justice of the peace.[2]

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.[3] He died at Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934.[4]

Electoral results

1884 election

13 August 1883 by-election
Name Vote%Thomas Wesley Jackson34475.44%William Robert Bell11224.56%
Total Votes456100%

1885 election

1885 Northwest Territories election
Name Vote%ElectedThomas Wesley Jackson44034.22%XWilliam Dell Perley30123.41%XAngus McKay29022.55%Leslie Gordon13710.65%Charles Edmund Phipps1189.17%
Total Votes1,286100%

Notes and References

  1. Web site: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905 . Saskatchewan Archives . 30 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101028/http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf . 28 September 2007.
  2. Web site: Yorkton's Corporate History. yorktonthisweek.com. 13 August 2015.
  3. Book: Ordinances of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Northwest Territories. 1898. Territorial Printer. 13 August 2015.
  4. Web site: Person Details for Thomas Wesley Jackson, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986" — FamilySearch.org. familysearch.org. 13 August 2015.