William Macarmick

William Macarmick

William Macarmick (baptised 15 September 1742 – 20 August 1815), Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton, MP.

When the British had taken final control of the island of Cape Breton, a greater attention was focused on the working of the mines on a commercial basis, which were thought to provide an inexhaustible source of revenue for the new colony. Cape Breton Island was given separate colonial status from that of Nova Scotia in 1784, when an order forbidding the granting of land in Cape Breton, issued in 1763, was removed. William Macarmick became colonial governor of Cape Breton in 1787, formerly running the mines for personal profit.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell in 1784.

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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2513 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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