Everything about Edmund Boyd Osler Ontario Politician totally explained
Sir Edmund Boyd Osler (
20 November 1845 –
August 4,
1924) was a
Canadian banker and politician.
Osler was born at
Tecumseh Township,
Simcoe County,
Canada West; he was brother of
Britton Bath Osler (founder of
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt), and doctor
Sir William Osler.
His career started out as a clerk at the Bank of Upper Canada, where he stayed until 1867, when the bank failed, and then as an independent financier and stockbroker with different partners. He got involved with
railway projects and became president of the Ontario and Quebéc Railway and later also director of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. He was also director of the Toronto General Trusts Company and the Canada North-West Land Company, and president of the Dominion Bank.
In 1896, Osler was elected to the
Canadian House of Commons as a
Conservative representative of
West Toronto. He continued to serve until 1917.
Together with
Byron Edmund Walker and others, Osler participated in the campaign to found an art museum in
Toronto initiated by
George Agnew Reid. These efforts were crowned the passing of the Royal Ontario Museum Act in 1912 and on March 19, 1914 with the opening of the
Royal Ontario Museum. Osler donated a large collection of paintings by
Paul Kane, which he'd bought in 1903 after the death of its former owner
George William Allan, to the museum already in 1912. He was knighted in 1912.
Osler lived in Toronto at Craigleigh. The family donated the estate to the City of Toronto after Osler's death; it's today the site of Craigleigh Gardens.
His grandson,
Edmund Boyd Osler (b. 1919), was a
Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons for
Winnipeg South Centre.
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