Name William Kennedy | Died May 3, 1885 | |
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Born 28 April 1839Newcastle, Upper Canada ( 1839-04-28 ) | ||
William Nassau Kennedy (28 April 1839 – 3 May 1885) was the second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1875 – 1876. He was the first commander of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
Kennedy was born in Newcastle, Upper Canada (now Newcastle, Ontario) and was the second of six children of John Kennedy, a housepainter and lieutenant-colonel in the militia, and Catharine Lambert.
Kennedy enlisted in the Peterborough Rifles in 1857. He was commissioned in 1865.
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