Richard Secord (Alberta politician)
| Richard Secord | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories for Edmonton | |
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In office May 21, 1902 – September 1, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Matthew McCauley |
| Succeeded by | District abolished |
| Alderman on the Edmonton Town Council | |
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In office December 12, 1898 – December 11, 1899 |
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| Born | July 19, 1860 Brant, Ontario, Ontario |
| Died | January 12, 1935 (aged 74) Edmonton, Alberta |
| Political party | Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Ada York (4 children) |
| Profession | Businessman, teacher |
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Richard Secord (July 19, 1860 – January 12, 1935) was a politician in western Canada, a member of the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories, a municipal councillor in Edmonton, and a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons.
Secord was born in Brant, Ontario on July 19, 1860. He was a great grandnephew of War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord. He was educated in Brant, and graduated with honours from Brantford Collegiate Institute. He came to Edmonton by way of Chicago and Winnipeg, arriving September 1, 1881.
Upon arriving, he helped build the first public school in Edmonton, and then moved to Pakan, Alberta to teach native children for a year. He returned to Edmonton in 1883 and taught for four years, and then entered the employ of John Alexander McDougall as a clerk. He started his own fur-trading business in 1888, and sold it to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1890. Thereafter, he partnered with McDougall.
In 1897, the pair founded McDougall & Secord, which advertised itself as "general merchants, wholesale and retail; buyers and exporters of raw furs; dealers in land scrip and north west lands; outfitters for survey parties, traders, trappers, miners and others for the north, and suppliers for country stores." The two ran the company until 1907, when they sold it and went into business as a financial house and mortgage corporation called McDougall & Secord, Limited, which still exists today.
He married schoolteacher Anna Ada York in 1891; the couple had four children.
Secord first sought political office during the 1898 municipal election, running for alderman on Edmonton Town Council. He was elected to a one-year term, and did not seek re-election at its conclusion.
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