Alexander Shaw was an Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 lawyer and political figure. He represented Bruce South

Bruce South

Bruce South was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882 and from 1903 to 1935....

 in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

 as a Liberal-Conservative member from 1878 to 1882.

He was born in Ramsay Township, Upper Canada

Upper Canada

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 in 1833, the son of John Shaw. He was educated in Perth

Perth, Ontario

Perth is a town in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, Canada . It is located on the Tay River, 83 km southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County.-History:...

 and studied law there. In 1853, he moved to Bruce County

Bruce County, Ontario

Bruce County is a county in western Ontario, Canada, and includes the Bruce Peninsula. As of 2006, the population was 65,349. The area was . The county seat is Walkerton, Ontario. It is located at ....

 and settled at Kincardine

Kincardine, Ontario

The Municipality of Kincardine is located on the shores of Lake Huron in the County of Bruce in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 12,000, and covers an area of 580 square kilometres...

. Shaw married Anna Robertson. He later moved to Walkerton

Walkerton, Ontario

Walkerton is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within and governed by the municipality of Brockton. It is the site of Brockton's municipal offices and the county seat of Bruce County...

 and became solicitor for the county in 1867. He also served as mayor of Walkerton. Shaw defeated Edward Blake

Edward Blake

Dominick Edward Blake, PC, QC , known as Edward Blake, was the second Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887...

 in Bruce South in the general election of 1878; he ran unsuccessfully against Rupert Mearse Wells

Rupert Mearse Wells

Rupert Mearse Wells was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1874 to 1879 and served as Liberal MLA for Bruce South from 1872 to 1882. He represented Bruce East in the Canadian House of Commons from 1883 to 1887 as a Liberal.He was born in Prescott County in Upper Canada in 1835 and attended...

 in the riding of Bruce East in 1882.

His brother William McNairn Shaw

William McNairn Shaw

William McNairn Shaw was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Lanark South in the 1st Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1868 as a Conservative member....

 was also a lawyer and served in the Ontario legislative assembly.

External links

• The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1880, CH Mackintosh
  Charles H. Mackintosh
  Charles Herbert Mackintosh was a journalist, mayor of Ottawa from 1879–1881, represented Ottawa City as a Liberal-Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1887, and from 1890 to 1893, and served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories from 1893 to 1898.-Parentage and...
  
  
• The History of the County of Bruce : and of the minor municipalities therein, province of Ontario, Canada, N Robertson