The Hon.
Samuel Sylvester Mills |
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| Senator for Ontario |
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In office
October 23, 1867 –January 24, 1874 |
| Appointed by | Royal Proclamation |
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| Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada |
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In office
1849–1867 |
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| Personal details |
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| Born | (1806-12-01)December 1, 1806
Hamilton, Upper Canada |
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| Died | January 24, 1874(1874-01-24) (aged 67)
Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Political party | Conservative |
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Samuel Sylvester Mills (December 1, 1806 – January 24, 1874) was a Canadian businessman and politician.
He was born in Burlington Bay, later Hamilton, in Upper Canada in 1806. He went into the business of selling hardware, also expanding into shipping, construction, mills and real estate, and quickly became one of the richest people in the area at the time. He served on the town council for Hamilton. Mills also served as president of the Gore Bank. In 1849, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. At Confederation in 1867, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada. He died while still in office at Hamilton in 1874.
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. An industrialized city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and a metropolitan population of 747,545. The city is located about 60 km southwest of Toronto, with which the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is formed.
The Province of Upper Canada was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the Pays d'en Haut which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay. The "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes, mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River, contrasted with Lower Canada to the northeast.
The Legislative Council of the Province of Canada was the upper house for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the province of Ontario. It was created by The Union Act of 1840.
He donated land to the city of Hamilton for use as a cemetery, which later became part of Harvey Park.
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