Timothy Blair Pardee was an Ontario

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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 the riding of Lambton

Lambton (electoral district)

Lambton was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1882. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1867 to 1874 and Lambton West

Lambton West

Lambton West was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1883 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 from 1875 to 1889 as a Liberal.

He was born in Grenville County

Grenville County, Ontario

Grenville County area is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The county was created in 1792, and named in honour of William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Secretary of State in 1790. The First settlers were Loyalist from the United States...

 in Upper Canada

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 in 1830. After his studies, he began articling in the law office of William Buell Richards

William Buell Richards

Sir William Buell Richards, PC, Kt was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.Richards was born in Brockville, Upper Canada to Stephen Richards and Phoebe Buell. He earned law degree at the St. Lawrence Academy in Potsdam, New York and then articled with his uncle Andrew Norton...

, but, in 1849, he joined the California Gold Rush

California Gold Rush

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. A few years later, he headed off to the Victorian Gold Rush

Victorian gold rush

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 in Australia

Australia

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. Finally, he returned to Canada, articled in Sarnia

Sarnia

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 and was called to the bar in 1861. He was appointed crown attorney in Lambton County

Lambton County, Ontario

Lambton County is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county is located in Southwestern Ontario. It is bordered on the north by Lake Huron, which flows into the St. Clair River, the county's western border and part of the Canada-United States border. To the south is Lake...

 but resigned in 1867 to run for a seat in the provincial parliament. In October 1872, he became provincial secretary in Oliver Mowat

Oliver Mowat

Sir Oliver Mowat, was a Canadian politician, and the third Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, making him the longest serving premier of that province and the 3rd longest in all of Canadian history...

's cabinet. In December 1873, he was named Commissioner of Crown Lands. He became a Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel

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 in 1876. In 1878, he introduced an Act to Prevent the Forests from Destruction by Fire, the first forest protection legislation for the province. He resigned in January 1889 due to ill health.

He died in Sarnia later that year.

His son Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth Pardee

Frederick Forsyth Pardee was an Ontario barrister and political figure. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1902 as a Liberal member and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1905 to 1918 as a Liberal member and from 1918 to 1921 as a member of the...

later served in the Canadian House of Commons.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Member's Parliamentary History: Timothy Pardee, Legislative Assembly of Ontario.