Arthur Campbell Garden | |
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Ontario MPP | |
In office June 25, 1923 – October 18, 1926 | |
Preceded by | Walter Rollo |
Succeeded by | Frederick Thomas Smye |
Constituency | Hamilton West |
Warden of Simcoe County | |
In office 1910–1910 | |
Preceded by | Richard Bell |
Succeeded by | James Moore |
Personal details | |
Born | Stamford, Canada West | August 9, 1860
Died | May 19, 1927 Hamilton, Ontario | (aged 66)
Political party | Conservative |
Profession | Commercial traveller, manager |
Arthur Campbell Garden (August 9, 1860 – May 19, 1927) was an Ontario businessman. He represented Hamilton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1926 as a Conservative member.
Born in Stamford[1][a] in Welland County,[2] Garden received his schooling in Thorold.[2] After marrying in 1884, he moved to Barrie to work as a commercial traveller for Dominion Drug.[2] He was known for joining many local philanthropic activities.[3]
Garden was first elected as a councillor in Barrie's 1893 election,[4] and later returned to be elected alderman in 1906.[5] He was subsequently acclaimed in the next four elections, as Deputy-Reeve in 1907[6] and as Reeve in 1908–1910,[3] thus becoming involved in Simcoe County politics. The Barrie Examiner noted in 1910 that "his name has been mentioned in connection with the nomination for the Legislature."[3] During his time on County Council, he was chairman of the committee that was responsible for the publication of a history of the county.[3][b]
In 1910, he was named Warden of Simcoe County, but the Northern Advance noted that "It was the most strenuous contest seen in years." It took eight ballots for him to finally win.[7]
After 1910, he was transferred to Hamilton to become a manager at National Drug & Chemical, as Dominion Drug was now known as.[2]
In both Barrie and Hamilton, Garden was a Conservative who was actively involved in provincial politics.[3] He would be elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1923 election, but declined to seek reelection in 1926 because of ill health.[2]
Garden died in Hamilton in 1927, aged 66.[2]