James Colebrooke Patterson (1839-1929)

Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1895-1900).

Born at Armagh, Ireland in 1839, he was educated in Dublin, and came to Canada in 1857. He was called to the bar of Ontario 1876 and practised in Windsor, Ontario. He served as the Reeve of Windsor for ten years, a Member of the Ontario Legislature from 1874 to 1878, and a member of the House of Commons from 1878 to 1895. As Federal minister of militia and defence, he sought to strengthen the nation's permanent force and was responsible for the construction of fortifications at Esquimalt. He was Secretary of State in 1892. He sought to promote the growth of Canadian literature by founding the Canadian Magazine.

He died at Ottawa on 17 February 1929.

He is commemorated by Paterson Street in Winnipeg. His papers from his Lieutenant-Governorship are at the Archives of Manitoba.

Sources:

“J. C. Patterson, once Manitoba governor, dies”, Winnipeg Tribune, 18 February 1929. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]

Profile revised: 29 November 2009

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