Charles Alexander Magrath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: North Augusta, South Carolina, United States
About Charles Alexander Magrath
- Charles Alexander Magrath conducted foundation surveys of the Northwest Territories from 1878 until 1885.
- He joined Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and Elliott Torrance Galt in their western industrial enterprises as a surveyor, later becoming Elliott's assistant and Land Commissioner of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company.
- He was also the first mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta, which has a major street (Mayor Magrath Drive) named after him. Magrath was a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1891–1898.
- He was appointed as a cabinet minister in the Frederick Haultain administration in 1897.
- In the 1891 and 1894 general elections and an 1897 by-election, he represented Lethbridge and was acclaimed. Magrath was elected to the House of Commons representing the Medicine Hat constituency (1908–1911).
- He was fuel Controller during the Great War and chairman of Ontario Hydro and the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission.
- He also served on the Newfoundland Royal Commission of 1933. He married Margaret Holmes White Mair in 1887.
- After giving birth to a son, Charles Bolton, in 1888, she died in June 1892 of complications following the birth of a daughter.
- In 1899, he married Mabel Lillian Galt, a daughter of Sir Alexander and half-sister of Elliot Galt.
- Two daughters were born of this union: Amy and Laura. Magrath has been called "The Father of Irrigation in Southern Alberta".
- However, during his lifetime he was quick to acknowledge the contributions of Charles Ora Card, the LDS Church, and Elliot Galt to the development of irrigation in the Lethbridge region.
- The community of Magrath is named in his honour.
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