Edmund Landor Taylor (1860-1934)

Teacher, lawyer, MLA (1911-1914), MLA (1914-1915).

Born on 14 December 1860, at Leeds County, Ontario, son of Mary Ann Redmond and Henry James Taylor, late postmaster of Crystal City, Manitoba. He moved to Manitoba in 1881. He was educated at the Gananoque (Ontario) High School, the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, and the Manitoba Provincial Normal School. He taught school from 1883 to 1886. He was a law student with J. A. M. Aikins from 1888 to 1892, and a law student with Tupper, Phippen & Tupper from 1892 to 1895. He was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1895.

He was a Director of the following Companies: Great West Permanent Loan Company, Canada National Fire Insurance Company, Imperial Canadian Trust Company, Monarch Life Assurance Company, Royal Canadian Securities Company. He was President of the Similkameen Fruit Land Company, President of the Northern Investment Company, and President of the Victoria Public Hospital.

He served as a Member of the Council for the University of Manitoba and a Member of the Board of Trustees for Wesley College. He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature for the constituency of Mountain in the July 1910 election. He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly for Gimli at a bye-election on 12 May 1913. He was Deputy Registrar of Rock Lake County, Manitoba.

On 5 March 1902, he married Una C. Preston, daughter of A. F. Preston, of Victoria, BC (formerly of Bethany, Durham County, Ontario) with whom he had one son and one daughter. Conservative, Methodist. Member of the AF & AM, IOOF.

His Winnipeg residence, 611 Wellington Crescent, was designed by architect J. N. Semmens.

Sources:

The Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1914.

Crescentwood, A History by R. R. Rostecki, Winnipeg: Crescentwood Home Owners Association, 1993.

Profile revised: 31 January 2010

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