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Dalton McCarthy

Dalton McCarthy
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Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Cardwell
In office
1876–1878
Preceded by John Hillyard Cameron
Succeeded by Thomas White
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Simcoe North
In office
1878–1898
Preceded by Hermon Henry Cook
Succeeded by Leighton McCarthy
Personal details
Born (1836-10-10)October 10, 1836
Oakley Park, Blackrock (Ireland)
Died May 11, 1898(1898-05-11) (aged 61)
Toronto, Ontario

Dalton McCarthy (October 10, 1836 – May 11, 1898), or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. He was the leader of the "Orange" or Protestant Irish, and fiercely fought against Irish Catholics as well as the French Catholics. He especially crusaded to crusade abolition of the French language in Manitoba and Ontario schools.

McCarthy was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1878 federal election as a Conservative. An Irish-born Protestant, McCarthy was stridently anti-Catholic and anti-French Canadian. He broke with the Conservatives in the 1890s, running and being re-elected as an Independent Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1891 election. He appears to have been associated with the Equal Rights Party which ran in that election but did not run as their candidate. It was his firm, Boulton & McCarthy in Barrie, that was the first incarnation of what is now Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault.

McCarthy was a founder of the "Imperial Federation League", which proposed uniting the United Kingdom and the emerging dominions under a central Cabinet government responsible to an Imperial Parliament elected from throughout the Empire. McCarthy ran his own slate of McCarthyite candidates in the 1896 election, but was the only one elected.


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