Provincial Military Plaque – Toronto

This plaque is dedicated to William Lyon Mackenzie. It was erected in 1976.

Inscription

WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE 1795-1861

The first Mayor of Toronto, 1834, was born and educated in Dundee, Scotland. This famous radical reformer, writer and publisher came to Canada in 1820 and at Queenston founded the influential newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, in 1824. Later that year he moved the paper to York (Toronto). In 1826 friends of the provincial oligarchy, which he had often attacked, retaliated by destroying his press. Mackenzie, Upper Canada’s leading radical, was elected to the provincial legislature in 1828, became Mayor of Toronto, and was leader of the ill-fated Rebellion of 1837. He fled to the United States until permitted to return in 1849. Mackenzie became a member of the Canadian parliament (1851-1858), although with diminished political influence. He is buried in Toronto’s Necropolis.

Cette plaque à la mémoire de William Lyon Mackenzie a été posée en 1976.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.