Albert Hagar was a Canadian

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 merchant and politician.

Born in North Plantagenet Township, Upper Canada

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 (now Ontario

Ontario

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), the son of Abner Hagar, a former Montreal

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 merchant, and Hannah P. Barker, he was educated in Vermont

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 and became a farmer, merchant and lumber dealer and owned a sawmill

Sawmill

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 and gristmill

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 at Plantagenet. Hagar was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Prescott

Prescott (electoral district)

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 in 1867

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. A Liberal

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, he was acclaimed in 1872

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 and re-elected in 1874

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. He was defeated in 1878

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He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 for the riding of Prescott in an 1881 by-election held after the death of William Harkin

William Harkin

William Harkin was an Ontario doctor and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1881 as a Conservative member....

. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1883

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Hagar was also a captain in the local militia, superintendent of schools, reeve for North Plantagenet Township and warden for Prescott and Russell counties

Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario

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. He also served as sheriff for Prescott and Russell counties. Later in life, he was the last surviving member of the first Canadian parliament.

Hagar died in Plantagenet at the age of 97.