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Victor Albert Sinclair

Victor Albert Sinclair
Ontario MPP
In office
1914–1919
Preceded byThomas Richard Mayberry
Succeeded byAlbert Thomas Walker
ConstituencyOxford South
Personal details
Born(1872-05-18)18 May 1872
Tillsonburg, Ontario
Died17 March 1944(1944-03-17) (aged 71)
Toronto, Ontario
PartyConservative
SpouseGertrude L. Draper (m. 1901)
OccupationLawyer

Victor Albert Sinclair (18 May 1872[1] –17 March 1944[2]) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Oxford South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1919 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Tillsonburg, the son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxiliana Norman, and was educated in Tillsonburg, at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1896 and entered practice in Tillsonburg. Sinclair served on the town council for Tillsonburg and served two years as mayor. He also served as high school trustee from 1910 to 1919. In 1901, he married Gertrude L. Draper. Sinclair served as president of the Tilsonburg Horticultural Club. He was also vice-president of the Tilsonburg Shoe Company.[1] He later served as chairman of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario[3] from 1925 to 1934 when he was removed from office by Mitchell Hepburn.[4] He was an insurance lawyer in Toronto from 1935 until his death in March 1944.

References

  1. ^ a b Charlesworth, Hector W (1919). "A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century". Toronto: Hunter Rose. p. 94. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  2. ^ University of Toronto Monthly, 1943/44, 220
  3. ^ Levi, Charles Morden (2003). Comings and goings: university students in Canadian society, 1854-1973. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 40. ISBN 0-7735-2442-8.
  4. ^ "Questions". Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario. 18 March 1935. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

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