Edward Barnes Borron (December 6, 1820 – April 23, 1915) represented the electoral district of Algoma in the Canadian House of Commons from 1874 to 1878. He was a member of the Liberal Party. The son of John Arthur Borron and Mary Geddes, he was educated at Lancashire, Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Edinburgh before entering work in his father's mines in Lanarkshire. In 1842, he became general manager. Borron came to Upper Canada in 1850, working in Michigan before becoming general manager for the Montreal Mining Company's operation at Bruce Mines. He married Marie-Edesse Février dit Laramée in 1854. They had four daughters and a son. (more research is needed as 5 daughters have been accounted for to-date). In 1858, he returned to Scotland but came back to the Sault Ste. Marie area in 1862. From 1869 to 1873, he was crown lands agent and mining inspector for the province in the Lake Superior division. In 1879, he was named Stipendiary Magistrate for the northern Nipissing district. He retired to Toronto in 1904.
Exact Birth Location: Woolden Hall, Parish of Ecles, County of Lancaster, England.
June 4, 1821: Christening at Winwick, County of Lancaster, England. (Sisters Sarah Jane and Elizabeth Ellen christened on the same day)[1]
August 12, 1850: resided Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri at residence of sister Mary Susannah and bother-in-law JSC Hogan.
1881: resided in St-Patrick Ward, District 134 H, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
1885 Authored: Stipendiary Magistrate on the Part of The Basin of Hudson’s Bay Belonging to the Province of Ontario, Grip Printing and Publishing Co. Front Street Toronto, 1885 https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/9149/reportofebborro00borr.pdf;sequence=1 Accessed August 10, 2023.
1879-1904: Descriptions of trips and surveys of natural resources in of lands of Northern Ontario:
http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/pub/data/imaging/NSP014/NSP014.pdf
https://ia903208.us.archive.org/29/items/descriptionofcou00nipi/descriptionofcou00nipi_djvu.txt
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=TC-QMM-124522&op=pdf&app=Library&oclc_number=902813865
https://books.google.com/books?id=4zk5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=MR.+E.+B.+BORRON+MADE+FIRST+ONTARIO+REPORTS+OF+JAMES+BAY+SLOPE&source=bl&ots=Uu8FEMMe6T&sig=ACfU3U3f1eW3RPaYaXEX_oganhcSjk0myQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFtMm03dOAAxVrAjQIHfZ5A_84FBDoAXoECAUQAw#v=onepage&q=borron&f=false
Accessed August 10, 2023.
1891: Authored Report on the Robinson Treaties: supporting disenfranchisement of Métis community members from continued Federal natural resource annuity payments. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/80832/3/Hayter_Jennifer_201711_PhD_thesis.pdf Accessed August 10, 2023.
April 23 1915: at date of death resided at 87 Lonsdale Road, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
April 26 1915: Burial, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery , Plot D Section 17 Lot 7, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
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