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Hope Fleming Mackenzie (May 24, 1821 – June 4, 1866) was a Canadian cabinet-maker, shipbuilder and political figure in
Canada West The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report on the ...
. He represented Lambton from 1860 to 1861 and North Oxford from 1863 to 1866 in the
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as a Reformer. He was born in
Logierait Logierait ( gd, Lag an Ratha - 'Hollow of the arth-Walled Fort/Enclosure') is a village and parish in Atholl, Scotland. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Tay and Tummel, west of the A9 road in Perth and Kinross. Nearby was an anc ...
,
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, the son of Alexander Mackenzie and Mary Stewart Fleming. Mackenzie came to Canada West in 1842, settling in
Sarnia Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. It had a 2021 population of 72,047, and is the largest city on Lake Huron. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes where Lake Huron fl ...
in 1847. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly in 1859 and then was elected in an 1860 by-election held after Malcolm Cameron was named to the Legislative Council. He chose not to run for reelection in 1861 for business reasons and his brother
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was elected in Lambton. Mackenzie was persuaded to run again in North Oxford in 1863 but later died in office at the age of 45. His brother Alexander went on to become the second
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References

* Lauriston,
''Lambton County's Hundred Years, 1849-1949'' (1949)
p. 231 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackenzie, Hope F 1821 births 1866 deaths Immigrants to the Province of Canada Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West People from Perth and Kinross Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario