Smith, Sir Albert James National Historic Person
Dorchester, New Brunswick
Sir Albert James Smith
(© Topley Studio / Library and Archives Canada / PA-025552)
Address :
corner of Main St. & Woodlawn Rd., Dorchester, New Brunswick
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1949-05-30
Life Date:
1822 to 1883
Other Name(s):
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Smith, Sir Albert James
(Designation Name)
Importance:
Premier of New Brunswick (1865-66), Minister of Marine and Fisheries (1873-78)
Plaque(s)
Original Plaque: Dorchester, New Brunswick
Jurist and Legislator, Premier of New Brunswick, 1865-66, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 1873-78. Born at Shediac, 12th March, 1823, died at Dorchester, 30th June, 1883.
Existing plaque: polished stone monument in a park corner of Main St. & Woodlawn Rd., Dorchester, New Brunswick
Born at Shediac, educated locally, and called to the bar in 1847, Smith represented Westmorland in the New Brunswick Legislature from 1851 to 1867. Minister without portfolio in the first Liberal government of the province and a member of several subsequent cabinets, he was President of the Council in the Smith-Wilmot administration formed to oppose Confederation. Elected as an Independent, he represented Westmorland in the House of Commons (1867-78). Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Mackenzie Government (1873-78), he was knighted for his services to the Halifax Fisheries Commission of 1878. He died at Dorchester.