William McCrae was a farmer and political figure 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 ...
.
He was the son of
Thomas McCrae, who settled in
Raleigh Township. McCrae also owned a farm in that township. He was named
justice of the peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
in the
Western District in 1816. He represented
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
in the
Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada was the elected part of the legislature for the province of Upper Canada, functioning as the lower house in the Parliament of Upper Canada. Its legislative power was subject to veto by the appointed Lis ...
from 1834 to 1841.
References
*''Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841'', J.K. Johnson (1989)
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Canadian justices of the peace
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