Macpherson Sir David Lewis 1818-1896 Born In Scotland Came To
Canada, 1835. In 1842 entered business in Montreal; in 1851 he, with
others, obtained a charter for a railway from Montreal to Kingston, and
associated with the construction of other lines; formed the
Inter-Oceanic Railway Company for the purpose of constructing the
projected Canadian Pacific Railway, but the contract given to the
syndicate headed by Sir Hugh Allan. In 1864-1867 a member of the
Legislative Council of Canada; in 1867 appointed to the Senate; Speaker,
1880; member of the Cabinet without portfolio; minister of the interior,
1883-1885; knighted, 1884. =Index=: (Sir John A Macdonald era) Heads the Inter-Oceanic Company
which received charter from government, 200. (Lord Elgin era) Signs Annexation
Manifesto, 81. =Bib.=: Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty Years; Pope,
Memoirs of Sir John A. Macdonald.