Mair Charles 1840- Born In Lanark Ontario Educated At Queen's


University, Kingston. Paymaster for the Dominion government at Fort

Garry, 1868; captured by the rebels in Riel's first rising, 1869;

condemned to death, but escaped. In the second rising, 1885, served as

quartermaster of the Governor-General's Body Guard. In 1893, appointed

Canadian government immigration agent in charge of the Lethbridge

district, Southern Alberta. =Index=: (Sir John A Macdonald era) Comes to Ottawa from Prince

Albert to impress on authorities the serious situation in the West, 241.



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