Charles Calder (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Whitby Township, Ontario, Ontario, Canada
About Charles Calder (politician)
- Charles Calder (December 29, 1852 – April 6, 1920) was an Ontario farmer and political figure.
- He represented Ontario South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1898 and from 1905 to 1919 as a Conservative member. He was born in 1852 at Whitby Township, the son of John Calder, a Scottish immigrant, and was educated in Whitby.
- Calder served as reeve for Whitby Township from 1893 to 1896.
- He was elected to the provincial assembly in 1898 but that election was appealed and he lost the subsequent by-election to John Dryden.
- He defeated Dryden in 1905 to win his seat in the provincial assembly.
- Calder lived near Brooklin.
- He died in 1920 at his home in Brooklin.
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