1. Charles Mair was a fervent Canadian nationalist noted for his participation in the Canada First movement and his opposition to Louis Riel during the two Riel Rebellions in western Canada.
10 Facts About Charles Mair
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Charles Mair attended Queen's University but left it after one year to help with the family's troubled businesses in Lanark.
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In Ottawa in 1868, Charles Mair was introduced by civil servant and writer Henry Morgan to young lawyers George Denison, William Foster, and Robert Haliburton.
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Charles Mair wrote extensively in opposition to Riel's cause, and his columns incensed the citizenry of Red River.
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In 1885, during the second Riel Rebellion, Charles Mair served an Officer of the Governor-General's Body Guard.
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Charles Mair worked as a civil servant in the Canadian west, and, in 1899, was appointed as secretary to the Metis Scrip Commission.
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Charles Mair travelled thousands of miles through the northwest, and kept a journal of his experiences which contains historical details about the treaty negotiations, and about the native and Metis people and places of the time.
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Charles Mair published the first book of poetry in post-Confederation Canada, 1868's Dreamland and Other Poems.
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Charles Mair published Tecumseh, a historical drama mainly in blank verse dealing with the War of 1812, in 1886.
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Charles Mair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1889.