Mair, Charles

(1840- ). Born in Lanark, Ontario. Educated at Queen's University, Kingston. Paymaster for the Dominion government at Fort Garry, 1868; captured by the rebels in Riel's first rising, 1869; condemned to death, but escaped. In the second rising, 1885, served as quartermaster of the Governor-General's Body Guard. In 1893, appointed Canadian government immigration agent in charge of the Lethbridge district, Southern Alberta. Index : Md Comes to Ottawa from Prince Albert to impre on authorities the serious situation in the West, 241. Bib. : Works: Dreamland and other Poems ; Tecumseh: a Drama . For biog., see Morgan, Can. Men ; MacMurchy, Canadian Literature .