Charles Perry (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician

For other people with the same name, see Charles Perry (disambiguation).

Charles Perry

Member of Parliament
for Peterborough West
Personal details
Born| (1818-12-07)7 December 1818
Cobourg, Upper Canada
Died| 7 July 1876(1876-07-07) (aged 57)
Peterborough, Ontario
Political party| Conservative

Charles Perry (7 December 1818 – 7 July 1876) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the 1st Canadian Parliament representing Peterborough West.[1]

He was born in Cobourg,[1] the son of Ebenezer Perry. He entered the timber trade, purchasing land in the Peterborough area[2] and building a large sawmill on the current site of Trent University in 1854.[3] Perry served as mayor of Peterborough in 1853 and from 1861 to 1865. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada in a by-election held in 1864. Perry was a customs collector at Peterborough from 1873 to 1876 and died in Peterborough in the latter year.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Charles Perry – Parliament of Canada biography
2. ^ a b Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
3. ^ "Nature Areas". Trent University. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2009.

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