Thomas Henry Smith (1848-1919)

Farmer, MLA (1886-1888), MLA (1888-1892), MLA (1892-1895), MLA (1896-1899), MLA (1900-1903).

Born in England on 3 July 1848, he emigrated to Canada in 1865 with Archbishop Robert Machray and established a farm in the Springfield district of Manitoba. He was a close personal friend of Colin Inkster and James H. Ashdown.

He married Margaret Matheson (1849-?) of Kildonan. They had nine children: Henry Smith (b 1875), Frederick William Smith (b 1877), Clarissa Smith (b 1879), Marion Smith (b 1881), Dollina Sarah Smith (b 1882), Lucy Norah Smith (b 1887), Thomas Howard Smith (b 1889), Maud Alman Smith (1891), and Ellen L. Smith (b 1892).

He died on his farm on 14 June 1919 and was interred in St. John’s Cemetery.

Sources:

1891 Canada census, Ancestry.

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

J. A. Gemmill (editor), The Canadian Parliamentary Companion, 1887. Canadiana.org.

“Thomas H. Smith Dead On Springfield Farm” Newspaper clipping dated 17 June 1919. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B7]

Profile revised: 20 February 2009

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