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James Kewley Ward (September 9, 1819 – October 2, 1910) was a
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lumber merchant and politician. Born in
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, the third son of John Ward, Ward was educated at May's Academy in Douglas, Isle of Man. He emigrated to the
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in 1842 and worked as a clerk in
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. He then worked as a clerk in a lumber mill in
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and was put in charge of the mill. In 1853, he moved to the province of
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where he purchased a lumber establishment on the Maskinonge River. In 1863, he moved to
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and purchased a mill on the St. Maurice River. In 1873, he moved to
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and opened the Mona sawmills on the
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. He retired from active business in 1900. He was a member of the council of the municipality of Côte-Saint-Antoine (renamed to Westmount, Quebec in 1895) and was mayor for nine years. A member of the
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, he was also a member of the Westmount School Commissioners for over thirty years and was chairman of that body for twenty years. He unsuccessfully ran as the
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candidate for the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of
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in the
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and 1887 federal election. He was appointed to the
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for the division of Victoria in June 1888 and served until his death. He was also a member of the Council of Public Instruction and was a Justice of the Peace for the District of Montreal. He donated $10,000 to build a public library, the Ward Public Library, opened in 1907 on Peel, Isle of Man. The Isle of Man issued two
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s (a 6p and 13p) in his honour in 1978. A
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, he was married twice. In 1848, he married Eliza King of
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, who died in 1854. In 1859, he married Lydia Trenholme, of Kingsey, Quebec, who died in 1900. He had three sons and seven daughters. He died in Westmount in 1910 aged 91 and was buried in Montreal at the Mount Royal Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, James Kewley 1819 births 1910 deaths Anglophone Quebec people Burials in Quebec Canadian Methodists Candidates in the 1882 Canadian federal election Candidates in the 1887 Canadian federal election Manx emigrants to Canada Mayors of Westmount, Quebec Quebec Liberal Party MLCs Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery