Thomas Mercer Jones (1795 – 2 October 1868) was an English-born administrator who arrived in
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ...
in the 1820s and was employed as a commissioner of the
Canada Company
The Canada Company was a private British land development company that was established to aid in the colonization of a large part of Upper Canada. It was incorporated by royal charter on August 19, 1826, under an act of the British parliament,, ...
based in
Goderich. A series of internal conflicts led to his dismissal in 1852. He died in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
.
External links
Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
1795 births
1868 deaths
English emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Immigrants to Upper Canada
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