Hugh McKay Sutherland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada
About Hugh McKay Sutherland
- Hugh McKay Sutherland (February 22, 1843 – August 14, 1926) was a lumber merchant and political figure in Manitoba, Canada.
- He represented Selkirk in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1887 as a Liberal member. He was born in New London, Prince Edward Island, the son of Donald Sutherland, a Scottish immigrant.
- Sutherland moved to Oxford County, Canada West with his family in 1849.
- He taught school there for a time.
- Sutherland then worked as a bookkeeper for Adam Oliver's lumber business at Ingersoll.
- He married Mary Dickie in 1864.
- From 1868 to 1873, he was involved in the lumber trade near Orillia, first in partnership with Oliver and later on his own.
- In 1873, he moved to the North West region where he served as superintendent of Dominion Government Public Works.
- He married May Banks in 1878 after the death of his first wife in 1875.
- Sutherland settled at Winnipeg where he again became involved in the lumber trade.
- In 1875, he was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the Ontario legislative assembly.
- Sutherland ran unsuccessfully in the federal riding of Winnipeg in 1887.
- He was president of the Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay Railway, the Rainy Lake Lumber Company, the Canadian Northern Coal and Ore Dock Company, the British and North-West Colonization Company and the Prince Albert Colonization Company and vice-president of the Manitoba South Western Railway.
- In 1921, Sutherland married Constance Margaret Denholm.
- He died in Croydon, England at the age of 83 and was buried in Winnipeg.
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