Donald Graham was a Scottish

Scotland

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-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia

British Columbia

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. He represented Yale-East

Yale-East

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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 from 1894 to 1898.

He was born in Ardallin, Sutherlandshire

Sutherland

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, the son of Alexander Graham, and was educated in Tain

Tain

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, Ross-shire

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. Graham came to Canada in 1865. In 1875, he moved to British Columbia, settling in the Okanagan Valley. For a time, Graham drove a pack-train for a government survey party. In 1885, he married Adelaide Grier. Graham served as a justice of the peace

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 and was reeve of Spallumcheen

Spallumcheen, British Columbia

Spallumcheen is a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Located in the Okanagan region between Vernon and Enderby, the township had a population of 4,960 in the Canada 2006 Census...

for three terms. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1898. Graham was one of the promoters of the Okanagan Flour Mills Co. Ltd, a co-operative flour milling company formed in 1895.