Morris Alexander 1826-1889 Born At Perth Upper Canada Educated
at the University of Glasgow and McGill University; studied law and
called to the bar of both Upper and Lower Canada, 1851. Entered public
life in 1861 as member for South Lanark; minister of inland revenue,
1869-1872; appointed chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of
Manitoba, 1872; and the same year lieutenant-governor of Manitoba and
the North-West Territories; returned to Ontario, 1877, and sat in the
Ontario Legislature for East Toronto from 1878 to 1886. =Index=: (George Brown Era)
Member for South Lanark, advocates Confederation in a pamphlet, Nova
Britannia, 129; conference with George Brown on Confederation, 152,
154. =Bib.=: Works: Nova Britannia; Canada and Her Resources;
Treaties of Canada. For biog., see Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty
Years.