Edward Toomy (ca 1809 – December 25, 1859) was a merchant and political figure in

Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...

. He represented Drummond in the

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The lower house consisted of ele ...

from 1833 to 1838. His surname also appears as Toomey. Toomy was a merchant in

Drummondville Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 79,258. The mayor of Drummondville is Stéphanie Lacoste. Drummondville is ...

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. He was first elected to the legislative assembly in an 1833 by-election held after

Frederick Heriot Frederick George Heriot (11 January 1786 – 30 December 1843) was a British army officer, who fought in the War of 1812 and subsequently became a landowner and administrator in Canada. Biography Of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry, he was ...

resigned his seat. He voted for the

Ninety-Two Resolutions The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the ''Parti patriote'' of Lower Canada in 1834. The resolutions were a long series of demands for political reforms in the British-governed colony. Papineau had b ...

. Toomy married Catherine Clarke. He was named bailiff for the Superior Court in 1851. He died in Drummondville at the age of 50.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toomy, Edward 1859 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada Year of birth uncertain