Macpherson, Sir David Lewis

(1818-1896). Born in Scotland. Came to Canada, 1835. In 1842 entered busine in Montreal; in 1851 he, with others, obtained a charter for a railway from Montreal to Kingston, and a ociated with the construction of other lines; formed the Inter-Oceanic Railway Company for the purpose of constructing the projected Canadian Pacific Railway, but the contract given to the syndicate headed by Sir Hugh Allan. In 1864-1867 a member of the Legislative Council of Canada; in 1867 appointed to the Senate; Speaker, 1880; member of the Cabinet without portfolio; minister of the interior, 1883-1885; knighted, 1884. Index : Md Heads the Inter-Oceanic Company which received charter from government, 200. E Signs Annexation Manifesto, 81. Bib. : Dent, Can. Por. and Last Forty Years ; Pope, Memoirs of Sir John A. Mac donald .