Patrick Baskerville
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Patrick Baskerville (November 1833 – ) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented the City of Ottawa in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1886 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Ballyrusheen, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1833, the son of George Baskerville, a farmer, and came to Bytown with his family in 1847. Baskerville worked at farming and the timber trade, before becoming a clerk with the Bytown and Prescott Railway in 1854. In 1862, he became a merchant, selling groceries. His three brothers joined the business as partners in 1870.
[edit] External links
- A Cyclopæedia of Canadian biography : being chiefly men of the time ..., GM Rose (1886)
- Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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