William McDonell Dawson
William McDonell Dawson (1822 – August 9, 1890) was a Quebec businessman and political figure, and a Scottish Roman Catholic.
He was born in Redhaven,
and was superintendent of the woods and forests branch in the Crown Lands department from 1852 to 1857. Dawson was founder and present of the North-West Transit Company.In 1858, he was elected to the
County of Ottawa in the 1861 general election. During his first term in office, he travelled to London
in an attempt to secure financing for a transcontinental railroad.
He died at Montreal in 1890.
His brother
Aeneas McDonell Dawson
was a priest and author at Ottawa.
External links
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- The Canadian parliamentary companion : first year, HJ Morgan (1862)
- Les députés de la région des Trois-Rivières,FJ Audet (1934)