James Davidson Geddes

James Davidson Geddes

James Davidson Geddes was a Canadian accountant, rancher and politician who served a term in the Northwest Territories Legislature.

Early life

Geddes lived in Galt, Ontario and worked as an accountant for the Merchants Bank. He married his wife, Eliza Fanning at the Trinity Church in Galt on June 12, 1866.cite web|url=http://www.waterlooogs.ca/Newspapers/Dumfries/DumfriesReformer1866-1870Marriages.pdf | title = Dumfries Reformer Marriages 1866-1870 | accessdate=2007-11-19 | publisher = Ontario Genealogical Society ]

He moved out west in 1882 to the District of Alberta in the Northwest Territories.cite book|publisher= J. Durie & Son. | pages=364 | title=Canadian Parliamentary Companion 1886|] His ranch was established on land where the Ghost River intersects the Bow River and in 1885 he had 200 head of cattle.cite web|url=http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/calg_industries/absketches.html | title=Personal Business Sketches | publisher = Alberta Family Histories Society | accessdate=2007-11-19] The land is now part of Ghost Reservoir Provincial Park.

Political career

Geddes ran for public office to a seat on the North-West Legislative Council in a by-election held on June 28, 1884. The election was the first one held in the city of Calgary in the Calgary electoral district defeated James Oswald in a hotly contested election. He left the Council in 1886.cite web | url =http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf | title =North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905 | publisher =Saskatchewan Archives | accessdate = 2007-09-30]

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