1. Thomas Farquhar was a Canadian politician and businessman from northern Ontario.
21 Facts About Thomas Farquhar
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Thomas Farquhar represented Manitoulin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1926 to 1929 and represented the federal riding of Algoma East in the House of Commons from 1943 to 1948.
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In 1948, Farquhar accepted an appointment to the Senate which allowed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Minister of External Affairs, and future Prime Minister Lester B Pearson the opportunity to be elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in the Algoma East riding.
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In 1945 Farquhar founded a family-owned dairy on Manitoulin Island that today operates as Farquhar's Dairy Limited.
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Thomas Farquhar was the third of ten children of William and Jane Thomas Farquhar.
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Thomas Farquhar was born on 28 January 1875 on a farm near Allandale, now Barrie, Ontario in Simcoe County.
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In 1903, Thomas Farquhar returned to Manitoulin to take up the family farm.
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Thomas Farquhar defeated then-mayor George Boyd, and was re-elected with a large plurality in 1921.
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Thomas Farquhar was renominated for the office in 1922 but declined to run against Boyd and James Dawson.
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Thomas Farquhar was a candidate for the Progressive Party in Algoma West in the 1921 federal election but finished third with 27 per cent of the vote.
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Never far from public life, Thomas Farquhar served as the reeve of Carnarvon Township on Manitoulin from 1922 to 1925.
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In 1926, Thomas Farquhar entered provincial politics and was elected to represent Manitoulin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a United Farmers member.
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Thomas Farquhar sought re-election in 1929 as a Liberal but was defeated.
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Thomas Farquhar was re-elected on 26 March 1940 and 11 June 1945.
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Thomas Farquhar resigned from the Senate on 27 September 1962 at the age of 87.
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In 1935, Thomas Farquhar went into the dairy business, eventually buying the dairy in Little Current.
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Thomas Farquhar's Dairy continues to operate as an independent dairy company in Northeastern Ontario.
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Thomas Farquhar was a director for a mine in Gatineau, Quebec.
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Thomas Farquhar died six months later on December 18,1907.
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Thomas Farquhar married his second wife, Kathleen's younger sister, Florence Amy Wiber in Little Current on Manitoulin Island in October 1914.
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Thomas Farquhar died on 24 December 1962 at the age of 87 and was interred in Mindemoya Cemetery on Manitoulin Island.