Letter to the Almonte Gazette re the Lanark North By-Election January 1880
It is well known the N . P. has done no good in North Lanark. In fact he has created a great deal of hardship. He has increased the cost of the necessaries of life: sugar and tea, cotton and woollen goods, all have gone up. The expenses of every family in North Lanark have increased, while the purchasing power of the labourer, and many others has decreased. The wages of the labouring man were lowered, and in some places hours of labour were increased working at lower wages.
Mr. Jamieson who previously contested the constituency with Mr. Galbraith in 1878, promised the electors better results if the elections were carried in favour of the N . P. What has been the result? There is not a new industry in the shape of manufacturing in North Lanark that was not in it before this policy was carried. It is worse– and a good many old ones have been closed up.
The furniture factories of Almonte and a foundry are closed-a woollen factory is for sale at Huntersville, and another at Carleton Place has been offered time and again for sale; it can neither be sold nor leased;— and it is a good new woollen factory with all the modern appliances.
At Innisville there are two woollen factories closed under the N . P. Can Mr. Jamieson explain why this is so? In his canvassing on this ticket he preached prosperity to everyone. Why does he try to throw dust in the eyes of the electors again, or will he frankly admit that there is no good result, from the N .P .!
Mr. Jamieson wishes to build up a class of manufacturers at the expense of everybody-else. He might as well ask the farmers of North Lanark to give them a liberal bonus every year the Conservatives are in power, and give them a tariff which makes the farmer buy at their own price.
VOTER. Ramsay,4th Jan., 1880. January 16
Joseph Jamieson (March 15, 1839 – March 12, 1922) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Lanark North in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1891 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Sherbrooke, Lanark County, Upper Canada, the son of William Jamieson, an immigrant from Ireland, and was educated in Perth. In 1865, he married Elizabeth Carss. Jamieson was called to the Ontario bar in 1869. He served as reeve for Almonte, warden for Lanark County and chairman of the board of license commissioners for North Lanark. Jamieson ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the 1878 federal election and an 1880 by-election. He resigned his seat in December 1891 after being named junior county judge for Wellington County.
Lanark North was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867 which divided the County of Lanark into two ridings: Lanark South and Lanark North.
In 1882, the North Riding of Lanark was defined to consist of the townships of Ramsay, Pakenham, Darling, Dalhousie, North Sherbrooke, Lavant, Fitzroy, Huntley and Lanark, the Town of Almonte, and the Village of Lanark.
In 1903, the village of Carleton Place was added to the riding, and the townships of Fitzroy and Huntley were excluded.
The electoral district was abolished in 1914 when it was merged into a Lanark riding.
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