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About Stewart Mulvey
- Stewart Mulvey (May 1834 – 26 May 1908) was a Canadian teacher, newspaper editor, militia officer, office holder and politician. Born in Sligo, Ireland, the son of Henry Mulvey and Barbara McGee, Mulvey was a teacher starting at the age of 16 in Irish National School system and the schools of the Church Educational Society.
- In 1856, he emigrated to Canada East at the invitation of Egerton Ryerson, the superintendent of education for Canada East, settling in Haldimand County where he was a teacher and editor of the local newspaper.
- He also served as a lieutenant in the 37th (Haldimand) Battalion of Rifles. In 1870, he joined the Red River expeditionary force and left for Winnipeg.
- From 1871 to 1873, Mulvey was editor of the Winnipeg newspaper, the Manitoba Liberal.
- From 1873 to 1882, he was a collector with the Department of Inland Revenue.
- During the North-West Rebellion, he served as a major in the 95th Battalion (Manitoba Grenadiers).
- A Protestant, he was active in the Orange Lodge in Winnipeg. From 1883 to 1888, he was an alderman on the Winnipeg City Council.
- In the 1882 election, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Selkirk.
- In 1896, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the electoral district of Morris.
- An independent, he was defeated in 1899.
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