death_date successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp death_place party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
21 january 1883 william mckay wright canadian bristol , england pontiac clarendon , quebec conservative 13 september 1813 1867 edmund heath
 1872 edmund heath
edmund heath

edmund heath -lrb- september 13 , 1813 -- january 21 , 1883 -rrb- was a quebec lumber merchant and political figure .
he was a conservative member of the 1st canadian parliament representing pontiac .
he was born in bristol , england in 1813 .
he settled in clarendon township in lower canada , where he entered the timber trade .
heath helped found the bytown and prescott railway in 1853 .
in 1855 , he was appointed crown lands agent at fort-coulonge .
he also served as major in the pontiac county militia .
he was elected to the 6th parliament of the province of canada representing pontiac in 1857 ; he was defeated in the election of 1861 .
in 1867 , he was elected to the house of commons .
he died at clarendon in 1883 .
