Political party Conservative Name Nathaniel Currie Occupation Farmer | Residence Glencoe, Upper Canada Spouse(s) Elizabeth Weeks | |
Succeeded by Alexander Mackenzie, John Watterworth (1872) Died 13 Jan 1889
Mosa Twp, Ontario | ||
Nathaniel Currie (Curry) was elected MPP in the 1st Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the Confederation elections of 1867. Born of Irish immigrants in Chinguacousy, Upper Canada, the family farmed in the Glencoe area. His father, Nathaniel Currie Sn. petitioned for land in Mosa County, from York where he had originally petitioned for land in Upper Canada. Currie married Elizabeth Weeks in Mosa in 1845 having ten children together. He was buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Mosa, Row 11, no. 17 at age 74.
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As an early settler of Mosa Township, he became a Conservative provincial political figure and later Reeve of Glencoe village for many years. Reeve Currie, the unofficial founder of the village, is reputed to have upheld the Black Donnellys right to walk freely in the streets of Glencoe. He did not run in the election 1871 but did run again for the Provincial Legislature in 1882, losing to George William Ross by a vote of 1651-1597.
Committees
As an MPP, he worked on the following Committees:
Bills Introduced
Currie introduced a bill in March 1874 to provide for female suffrage and the political representation of real property according to value. The bill stated that real property should be the basis of the vote and dual or plural votes per property should be allowed. Women of age holding property should be included in this vote. After much discussion the Farmers' Sons Franchise Act was passed in 1877, providing the vote to sons of land owners on the basis of property according to value, but not women.