Charles Coxwell Small
Charles Coxwell Small( b 1801) was a wealthy farmer and public official in Upper Canada.
Like his father, John Small, Small was the Chief Clerk of Upper Canada's Privy Council.
In 1831 Small inherited extensive property from his father.
This property included a parcel between Front and King, and Ontario and what is now Berkeley, but was then known as Parliament Street, on the original townsite of York, Upper Canada( later Toronto), with a large house, called Berkeley House.
"( The Ontario Genealogical Society reports John Small left this York property, jointly, to Charles Coxwell Small, and his older brother James Edward Small.)"
Charles Coxwell
Small added to the house, transforming it into what" Beaches Living" called a mansion.
When new Parliament buildings were built, elsewhere, the original Parliament Street was renamed Berkeley after the Small grand home.
He also inherited a parcel bounded by what is now Queen, Coxwell, Danforth and Kingston Road, then outside of the city limits.
Coxwell Avenue is named after Charles Coxwell Small.
Small dammed the creek on his rural property, to harness the waterpower for a sawmill.
The large pond this created was named Small's Pond.
The largest of the creeks he dammed was renamed Small's Creek.
Charles Coxwell Small had a son born in 1831, the year his father died, who he also named John Small, served in Parliaments of the Province of Canada and Canada.
His son was elected to Parliament of the Province of Canada for the riding of East Toronto Riding in 1855, and was later elected to the Parliament of Canada.
Adam Fergusson (d.1862)
Adam Fergusson( March 4, 1783 – September 25, 1862) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada and Canada West.
He was born in 1783 at Woodhill, Perthshire, Scotland, studied law and became a magistrate.
He was a director of an agricultural society, the Highland Society of Scotland, and was sent by them in 1831 to determine the state of agriculture in Canada and the United States.
Impressed by his visit, he settled with his family on a farm, which he also named Woodhill, near Waterdown in East Flamborough Township, Upper Canada in 1833.
In 1834, he established the village of Fergus with James Webster.
He commanded a militia unit during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
In 1839, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Upper Canada and was a member of the Legislative Council for United Canada until his death in 1862.
Although loyal to Britain, prosperous and well- connected, he supported the Reformers.
He remained interested in improving agriculture in Upper Canada.
He imported cattle from Britain and established a competition, the Fergus Cup, for the best Durham heifer.
He was the first president of the Agricultural Association of Upper Canada in 1846 and a member of the Board of Agriculture of Upper Canada.
He was a senator at the University of Toronto and played an important role in establishing the Upper Canada Veterinary School which became the Ontario Veterinary College, now part of the University of Guelph.
He suffered a stroke in 1860 which left him paralyzed and died at Waterdown in 1862.
His son Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair served in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada and was later named to the Senate.
Rémy Désilets
Rémy Désilets is a Quebec, Canada politician.
He was a Member of the National Assembly.
David Duncombe
David Duncombe( 1802–1887) was a physician and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in New York state in 1802 and came to Upper Canada with his brother Charles.
He studied medicine at Fairfield College in New York state and later served as coroner in the Talbot District.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada to represent Norfolk in 1834 and served until 1841.
He was a Reformer but did not participate in the Upper Canada Rebellion.
He died at Waterford in 1887.
Robert Alway
Robert Alway (1790 – August 6, 1840) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England in 1790 and arrived in Upper Canada around 1816.
He represented Oxford in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1834 to 1841 as a Reformer.
He served in the local militia but was dismissed in 1838.
He was arrested after the Upper Canada Rebellion but later released because there was insufficient evidence of any wrongdoing.
He left the country and moved to Texas where he died of yellow fever in 1840.
Frank Stodart
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John Small (Canadian MP)
John Small( October 8, 1831 – February 10, 1909) was a Canadian politician.
Born in York Township, Upper Canada, Small was educated in his home district schools and at the Upper Canada College.
Both Small's grandfather, also named John Small, and his father Charles Coxwell Small had been the Chief Clerk of Upper Canada's Privy Council.
In 1855 he was elected to the Parliament of the Province of Canada for East Toronto Riding.
From 1855 to 1882, he was a taxing officer of the Court of the Queen's Bench.
From 1878 to 1879, he was a member of the Toronto City Council.
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Toronto East in the 1882 federal election.
A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1887.
He did not run in 1891 and was appointed collector of customs in Toronto.
John Small (Upper Canada politician)
John Small (August 27, 1746 – July 18, 1831) was a political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Cirencester, England in 1746.
In 1792, he was appointed clerk of the Executive Council of Upper Canada.
He was also a justice of the peace and a lieutenant in the militia.
He came to Canada with John Graves Simcoe and built one of the first residential homes in York (now Toronto).
His son, Charles Small, expanded the home which was later called Berkeley House.
It became a prominent Toronto home until it was torn down and turned into a brewery.
In January 1800, he fought a duel with John White, the attorney general for the province.
White had insulted Small's wife's honour after a quarrel between the two men's wives.
Major John Small shot White in the hip, a wound he died from a few days later.
He was charged with and acquitted of murder, even though the presiding judge, Henry Allcock, claimed to be a friend of White.
Small's reputation in the elite society of York was ruined by the affair.
As a result of land speculation, he was able to achieve some level of prosperity.
He died at Toronto in 1831.
His elder son, James Edward, served in the legislative assemblies of Upper Canada and the Province of Canada.
His younger son Charles Coxwell Small, followed in his footsteps, as Chief Clerk.
His grandson, also John Small, served in Parliaments of the Province of Canada and the Dominion of Canada.
Frank Lindsay Bastedo
Frank Lindsay Bastedo, (September 10, 1886 – February 15, 1973), was a Canadian lawyer who served as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
He is notable for being one of the few (and the last) Canadian vice-regal representatives to refuse to give royal assent to a legislative bill.
He was a descendant of Peter McMicking (1731–1823), a United Empire Loyalist, and also with Spanish ancestral origins.
Bastedo earned his law degree from the University of Toronto in 1909.
He moved to Regina two years later to join a law firm there.
He was appointed King's Counsel in 1927.
A Conservative by party, he headed Regina's Conservative Association from 1921 to 1924 but did not seek the party's nomination for elected office.
Bastedo was appointed lieutenant-governor on the advice of Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1958.
The lieutenant-governor, like the Governor-General of Canada is a largely ceremonial position, however, as the Queen's representative he does have rarely used reserve powers to veto legislation.
Bastedo employed the little-used power to reserve a bill (that is, withhold assent and send the bill to the Governor General of Canada who would grant assent only if the federal Cabinet agrees) proposed by Saskatchewan's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Woodrow Lloyd in 1961.
This was the first time a lieutenant-governor had refused royal assent in Canada since 1937 when Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta John C. Bowen reserved three bills proposed by the Social Credit government of William Aberhart as unconstitutional.
The measure in question, Bill 56, was entitled "An Act to Provide for the Alteration of Certain Mineral Contracts".
Bastedo issued a statement that "this is a very important bill affecting hundreds of mineral contracts.
It raises implications which throw grave doubts of the legislation being in the public interest.
There is grave doubt as to its validity."
Bastedo's constitutional advisors, however, did not share his assessment and advised him to grant royal assent.
Bastedo had not consulted with the federal government before taking action.
The Diefenbaker government passed an order-in-council approving Bill 56.
The Bastedo incident is the last in Canada where a vice-regal representative refused royal assent.
Bastedo was the first (and probably the only) Canadian provincial Lieutenant-Governor to have been of Spanish ancestral origin; he is descended from Jacob Bastedo, a Protestant who fled persecution in Spain to Netherlands centuries ago.
From there the family migrated to England, the American Colonies, and then as United Empire Loyalists, to Canada.
He was related to the British actress Alexandra Bastedo.
Henry Small (footballer)
Henry John Small( c.1881 – 5 June 1946) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward for Southampton and Manchester United in the 1900s.

Question: Who lived longer, John Small (Upper Canada Politician) or Frank Lindsay Bastedo?
Answer: Frank Lindsay Bastedo