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Asa Belknap Foster

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Asa Belknap Foster

Birth
Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Death
1 Nov 1877 (aged 60)
Burial
Knowlton, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada Add to Map
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Canadian senator, b. in Dummerton, VT, in 1817; d. in Montreal, Canada, 2 Nov 1877. He was educated in Lower Canada, to which he moved in 1821, and settled in Frost Village. In 1841 he engaged in railroad construction in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, and on his return to Canada in 1856 engaged in the same business there. He was elected a member to the Canada assembly from Shefford county, Lower Canada, in 1858,but resigned in 1860, and was returned to the legislative council for Bedford district. After the confederation he was called to the senate of the Dominion, but, retired from it in 1875, when he received the contract for the Georgian Bay branch of the Canadian Pacific railway. (Info from "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography")
Canadian senator, b. in Dummerton, VT, in 1817; d. in Montreal, Canada, 2 Nov 1877. He was educated in Lower Canada, to which he moved in 1821, and settled in Frost Village. In 1841 he engaged in railroad construction in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, and on his return to Canada in 1856 engaged in the same business there. He was elected a member to the Canada assembly from Shefford county, Lower Canada, in 1858,but resigned in 1860, and was returned to the legislative council for Bedford district. After the confederation he was called to the senate of the Dominion, but, retired from it in 1875, when he received the contract for the Georgian Bay branch of the Canadian Pacific railway. (Info from "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography")

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