- Richard Wilson-Smith
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name = Richard Wilson-Smith
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order = 24th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1896
term_end = 1898
constituency = Saint-Laurent
predecessor =Joseph-Octave Villeneuve
successor =Raymond Préfontaine
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birth_date = 1852
birth_place =Northern Ireland
death_date =12 September 1912
death_place =Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec ,Canada
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profession =financier ,journalist
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footnotes =Richard Wilson-Smith (1852 –
12 September 1912 ) was a Canadian businessman and politician.Born in
Ireland , Wilson-Smith emigrated to Canada in 1878 settling inMontreal . A few years after arriving in Montreal, he became publisher and chief editor of the "Insurance and Finance Chronicle". In 1893, he was elected to theMontreal City Council as an alderman for St. Lawrence Ward. In 1896, he was unanimously electedMayor of Montreal for a two-year term. He ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for theCanadian House of Commons for the riding St. Lawrence in the 1896 federal election. In 1892, he became a member of theMontreal Board of Trade , and in 1898 he purchased aseat on theMontreal Stock Exchange .He was one of the original directors of the Lachine Rapids Hydraulic and Land Company, which undertook successfully the development of the vast water power of the
Lachine Rapids . He was President of the Canada Accident Company, a trustee of the Guardian Assurance Company, Vice-President of the Montreal Trust and Deposit Company, the National Security Company of New York and resident Vice-President of the American Surety Company.References
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