John Galt (novelist)
John Galt( 2 May 1779 – 11 April 1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator.
Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution.
Galt was the first superintendent of the Canada Company( 1826- 1829).
The company had been formed to populate a part of what is now Southern Ontario( then known as Upper Canada) in the first half of the 19th century; it was later called" the most important single attempt at settlement in Canadian history".
In 1829, Galt was recalled to Great Britain for mismanagement of the Canada Company( particularly incompetent bookkeeping), and was later jailed for failing to pay his son's tuition.
Galt's" Autobiography", published in London in 1833, includes a discussion of his life and work in Upper Canada.
He was the father of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt of Montreal, Quebec.
Samuel Brooks (politician)
Samuel Brooks( c. 1793 – March 22, 1849) was an American- born merchant and political figure in Lower Canada.
He was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, the son of merchant Samuel Brooks.
He set up business in Newbury, Vermont.
He married Elizabeth Towle in 1813.
Around 1820, he moved to Stanstead in Lower Canada, later moving to Lennoxville.
He was a merchant there and also provided loans, raised livestock and acted as agent for the British American Land Company in the Eastern Townships.
He later was a bank manager at Sherbrooke and president of the Stanstead and Sherbrooke Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Brooks was also involved in the development of railroads in the region with Alexander Tilloch Galt.
He served in the local militia and as justice of the peace.
Brooks was elected to represent Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1829 and was reelected in 1830.
He was forced to resign in 1831 because he was not a British subject.
He was elected to represent Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844 and was reelected in 1848.
He died in office in Montreal in 1849.
His son Edward Towle served in the Canadian House of Commons.
His daughter Eleanor Hall married John Sewell Sanborn, who served in the Senate of Canada.
Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch FSA( Scot)( 28 February 1759 – 1825) was a Scottish journalist and inventor.
He founded the" Philosophical Magazine".
Charles Alexander Magrath
Charles Alexander Magrath conducted foundation surveys of the Northwest Territories from 1878 until 1885.
He joined Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt and Elliott Torrance Galt in their western industrial enterprises as a surveyor, later becoming Elliott's assistant and Land Commissioner of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company.
He was also the first mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta, which has a major street( Mayor Magrath Drive) named after him.
Magrath was a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1891 – 1898.
He was appointed as a cabinet minister in the Frederick Haultain administration in 1897.
In the 1891 and 1894 general elections and an 1897 by-election, he represented Lethbridge and was acclaimed.
Magrath was elected to the House of Commons representing the Medicine Hat constituency( 1908 – 1911).
He was fuel Controller during the Great War and chairman of Ontario Hydro and the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission.
He also served on the Newfoundland Royal Commission of 1933.
He married Margaret Holmes White Mair in 1887.
After giving birth to a son, Charles Bolton, in 1888, she died in June 1892 of complications following the birth of a daughter.
In 1899, he married Mabel Lillian Galt, a daughter of Sir Alexander and half- sister of Elliot Galt.
Two daughters were born of this union: Amy and Laura.
Magrath has been called" The Father of Irrigation in Southern Alberta".
However, during his lifetime he was quick to acknowledge the contributions of Charles Ora Card, the LDS Church, and Elliot Galt to the development of irrigation in the Lethbridge region.
The community of Magrath is named in his honour.
Al Strachan
Alan Strachan is a Canadian sports author and journalist.
A former sports columnist for" The Globe and MailMontreal Gazette", and" Toronto Sun", he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1993 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
He is also a former panelist on" Hockey Night in Canada" and analyst on The Score.
Elliott Torrance Galt
Elliott Torrance Galt( 24 May 1850- 15 May 1928) was a Canadian businessman and developer.
The grandson of the novelist John Galt and only child of the politician Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt( 1817- 1893) by his wife Elliott( d. 1850 shortly after giving birth to her son), daughter of the entrepreneur John Torrance, Galt was educated at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Lower Canada, before studying at Harrow and at Tours in France.
Galt's business career began in 1883, following a period in the 1870s as clerk to various Montreal businessmen including John Rose and having held the position of secretary to Edgar Dewdney, Indian commissioner for the Northwest Territories, which led to Galt's appointment as assistant Indian commissioner at Regina.
With his father, Galt was a major figure in the financing and management of Lethbridge, Alberta, building 571 kilometres of irrigation canals and establishing coal mines with a daily capacity of over 2,000 tonnes.
Galt died, unmarried, from complications related to a heart attack in New York City, where he had gone for medical treatment.
Hollis Smith
Hollis Smith( June 24, 1800 – March 29, 1863) was a businessman and political figure in Canada East, now part of the Canadian province of Quebec.
Smith was born in Plainfield, New Hampshire and grew up in Hatley Township in Lower Canada.
He settled near Lennoxville, first as a farmer, then later opening a general store.
He then opened stores at Compton and Eaton( now part of Cookshire- Eaton).
He also acquired land and worked with Alexander Tilloch Galt of the British American Land Company to build a road to open up access to the Eastern Townships.
Smith supported the Montreal Annexation Manifesto of 1849.
He helped establish Bishop's College and was a partner in the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad and the Sherbrooke Cotton Factory.
In 1856, he moved his residence to Sherbrooke, where he was secretary for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
In 1856, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for Wellington district.
Originally a Liberal, he declared himself an Independent in 1857 and a Conservative in 1858.
He died in Sherbrooke, after an attack of apoplexy.
His daughter Susan Selina married Alexander Manning, a mayor of Toronto.
Alexander Tilloch Galt
Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt,( September 6, 1817 – September 19, 1893) was a politician and a father of Canadian Confederation.
William Lethbridge
William Lethbridge( 1825–1901) was a lawyer in England.
When bookseller W H Smith owner William Henry Smith II decided to become involved in politics in 1864, he enlisted Lethbridge as a managing partner.
He sat for a portrait by Frederick Sandys( 1829- 1904) in 1882( see illustration).
Lethbridge was the first president of North Western Coal and Navigation Company, a mining company based out of Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1882.
The city of Lethbridge was named after him by Alexander Tilloch Galt in an effort to convince him to invest in the new company.
However, Lethbridge never went to Canada.
Thomas Scatcherd
Thomas Scatcherd (November 10, 1823 – April 15, 1876) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure.
He represented Middlesex North as a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1876.
He was born in Wyton in Middlesex County, Upper Canada in 1823.
His father, John Scatcherd, represented West Middlesex in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1854 until his death in 1858.
He married Isabella Sprague, granddaughter of Elias Moore, who had represented Middlesex in the Legislative Assembly during the Rebellions of 1837.
Thomas articled in law in London and Toronto and entered practice in 1849.
In 1849, he became solicitor for the town of London.
In 1861, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for West Middlesex; he was reelected in 1863.
He opposed Confederation because he felt that it was structured to favour Canada East.
With George Brown, he strongly opposed a bill introduced in 1866 to extend privileges to Roman Catholic schools in Canada West which were being proposed for Protestant schools in Canada East by Alexander Tilloch Galt; their resistance led to the withdrawal of both bills and the resignation of Galt.
He died in Ottawa in 1876 while in office.
His brother Robert Colin represented Middlesex North from 1876 to 1878.

Question: Are Alexander Tilloch Galt and Al Strachan from the same country?
Answer: yes