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.