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and his older cousin Daniel A. McCall married McInnes sisters; the
two couples were fast friends all their lives. Alex moved his family
from Vittoria to Simcoe in 1880. Alex was prominent in business,
finance and politics in Norfolk for six decades. He and his brother
Thomas followed their father into the lumber business, Alex being
the senior partner in A. & T. McCall, and later a significant lumber
exporter with holdings in several a dozen Southern and Western
States. Alex served on municipal council in Charlotteville and
Simcoe, was Mayor of Simcoe 1893-1894, was elected to federal
Parliament in 1908, then appointed
to the Canadian Senate in 1913. He was a driving force behind CN
rail between Port Rowan and Simcoe, the wintering place cross on
Brant Hill in Port Dover, the Carillon Tower, Norfolk General
Hospital. In 1922 he was elected honorary president of the Norfolk
Historical Society. |
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