Robert Blackburn (politician)
- Robert Blackburn (politician)
Robert Blackburn (December 17 1828 – August 12 1894) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Blackburn was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1828 and came to Canada in 1842. He became a lumber merchant and partner in woollen mills. He was reeve of Gloucester Township, Ontario in 1864. He was also reeve of New Edinburgh, Ontario from 1868 to 1870 and from 1871 to 1873. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Russell from 1874 to 1878. Blackburn also served as a director of the Bank of Ottawa and the Ottawa Agricultural Insurance Company. Along with William Goodhue Perley and others, he helped establish the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company, a horse-drawn tram service, in 1866.
Blackburn Hamlet, Ontario was named after him.
His uncle, James Blackburn, represented the County of Ottawa in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=2797&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32951 "The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1877", CH Mackintosh ]
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