Charles Dalton

For the basketball player, see Chuck Dalton.

Sir Charles Dalton (June 9, 1850^[1] – 1933) was a Prince Edward Island businessman, politician and philanthropist.

Charles Dalton was born at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, the son of Patrick Dalton and Margaret McCarthy.^[1] He first worked as a farmer and then a druggist. He married Anne Gavin in 1874.

Dalton earned his fortune through silver fox breeding, in the process making the island the centre of the world's trade in the fur-bearing animal.^[1] He Dalton used his fortune to purchase the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper.^[2] He served as a Conservative^[2] provincial cabinet minister^[3] and then the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1930 until his death in 1933.

During World War I, he donated a motor ambulance to the Canadian government. He also built a school in his home town of Tignish. In 1916, he was named a Knight Commander in the Order of St. Gregory the Great^[1]

Dalton became devoted to the fight against tuberculosis after losing a daughter to the disease, donating funds to allow for the construction of a sanatorium on the island which was named in his honour.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "The Honourable Charles Dalton". Prince Edward Island: Lieutenant Governors gallery. Government of Prince Edward Island. http://www.gov.pe.ca/olg/gallery/picture_setup.php?lg=26Dalton. Retrieved 2009-05-09. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Gary MacDougall, "Our History", Charlottetown Guardian, accessed May 6, 2008
3. ^ "Fox Thieves Caught", TIME Magazine, March 17, 1930
4. ^ "Tuberculosis History in Canada: Sir Charles Dalton", Canadian Lung Association

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Name	Dalton, Charles
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Date of birth	June 9, 1850
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Date of death	1933
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