James Garden

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James Ford Garden (February 19, 1847 – December 9, 1914)^[1] was a Canadian engineer and the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900. Under his tenure the city developed a street car system, sidewalks, road grades and water connections.

Born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, the son of H. M. G. and E. Jane (Gale) Garden, Garden was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1894. He was a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps in the North-West Rebellion in 1875 and was wounded in the Battle of Batoche. From 1898 to 1900, he was mayor of Vancouver.^[2] He ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Burrard in the 1900 federal election.^[3]

He was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a British Columbia Conservative Party MLA for Vancouver City in 1900 and re-elected in 1903 and 1907.

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↑ British Columbia from the earliest times to the present. 1914. p. 13.
↑ "History of Federal Ridings since 1867".

v t e Mayors of Vancouver

MacLean Oppenheimer Cope Anderson Collins Templeton Garden Townley Neelands McGuigan Buscombe Bethune Douglas Taylor Findlay Baxter Taylor McBeath Gale Tisdall W. Owen Taylor Malkin Taylor McGeer Miller Telford Cornett McGeer Jones Miller (acting) Thompson Hume Alsbury Rathie T. Campbell Phillips Volrich Harcourt G. Campbell P. Owen L. Campbell Sullivan Robertson

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Name	Garden, James
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Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	February 19, 1847
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Date of death	December 9, 1914
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