Allen Bristol Aylesworth

The Honourable Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth PC KCMG
Minister of Justice
In office 4 June 1906 – 6 October 1911
Preceded by	Charles Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by	Charles Doherty
Postmaster General
In office 16 October 1905 – 3 June 1906
Preceded by	William Mulock
Succeeded by	Rodolphe Lemieux
Minister of Labour
In office 16 October 1905 – 3 June 1906
Preceded by	William Mulock
Succeeded by	Rodolphe Lemieux
Personal details
Born	(1854-11-27)November 27, 1854
Died	February 13, 1952(1952-02-13) (aged 97)
Political party	Liberal

Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth, PC, KCMG (27 November 1854 – 13 February 1952) was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian.

Born in Newburgh, Ontario of United Empire Loyalist ancestry, Aylesworth was educated at the University of Toronto, and called to the Ontario Bar in 1878. As the Canadian member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903, he presented his country’s views in a minority report. Elected to the Dominion parliament in 1905, he served in the cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier as postmaster-general and minister of labour, 1905–1906, and minister of justice, 1906–1911, in which capacity he oversaw the pardon of Angelina Napolitano, Canada’s first battered woman defence case.^[1] He acted as British representative at the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration in The Hague, 1910–1911, and was knighted for his services.

A Liberal, Aylesworth was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election on 22 November 1905 and re-elected in the 1908 as the Member of Parliament for the riding of York North in the province of Ontario. He served Cabinet of Canada under Sir Wilfrid Laurier as the Minister of Labour and Postmaster General of Canada from 16 October 1905–3 June 1906, and as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 4 June 1906–6 October 1911. On 11 January 1923 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate upon the recommendation of William Lyon Mackenzie King. He represented the senatorial division of North York, Ontario until his death.

Legacy

Mount Aylesworth, aka Boundary Peak 177, a summit on the Alaska-British Columbia boundary, was named for him in 1927.^[2]

References

External links

• Allen Bristol Aylesworth – Parliament of Canada biography
• Plaque in Honour of Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth (plaque #26)
• Archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General Macdonald Dorion Smith (acting) Fournier Blake Laflamme Campbell Thompson Tupper Daly (acting) Dickey Mowat Mills Fitzpatrick Aylesworth Doherty Bennett Gouin Lapointe Guthrie (acting) Patenaude Lapointe Guthrie Geary Lapointe Michaud (acting) St. Laurent Ilsley St. Laurent Garson Fulton Fleming Chevrier Favreau McIlraith (acting) Cardin Trudeau Turner Lang Basford Lang Lalonde Flynn Chrétien MacGuigan Johnston Crosbie Hnatyshyn Clark (acting) Lewis Campbell Blais Rock McLellan Cauchon Cotler Toews Nicholson MacKay Wilson-Raybould

Postmasters General Campbell O'Connor Macdonald Fournier Huntington Langevin Campbell O'Connor Campbell O'Connor Carling Campbell McLelan Carling (acting) Haggart Caron Taillon Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux Béland Pelletier Casgrain Blondin Belley Murphy Manion Veniot Sauvé Gobeil Elliott McLarty Power Ilsley (acting) Mulock Bertrand Rinfret Côté Pinard (acting) Lapointe Hamilton MacLean (acting) Fairclough Denis Nicholson Tremblay Côté Kierans Côté Ouellet Mackasey Blais Lamontagne Fraser Ouellet1 1The office of Postmaster General was abolished when the Post Office Department became a Crown Corporation known as the Canada Post Corporation on October 16, 1981.

Ministers of Labour Ministers of Labour (1900–1996) Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux1 W. L. M. King Crothers Robertson Murdock J. H. King (acting) Elliott Manion (acting) Jones Heenan Robertson Gordon Rogers McLarty Mitchell Martin (acting) Gregg Starr MacEachen Nicholson Pépin Mackasey O'Connell Munro Ouellet (acting) O'Connell Alexander Regan Caccia Ouellet McKnight Cadieux Corbeil Danis Valcourt Axworthy Robillard Ministers of Human Resources Development (1996–2005)2 Young Pettigrew Stewart Frulla Dryden Ministers of Human Resources and Skills Development (2005–2013) Stronach Finley Solberg Finley Ministers of Employment and Social Development (2013–2015) Kenney Poilievre Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (2015–present) Duclos Ministers of Labour (1996–2015) Robillard Gagliano MacAulay Bradshaw Fontana3 Blackburn Ambrose Raitt Leitch Minister of Employment, Workforce and Labour (2015–present) Mihychuk 1Until 1909, the office of the minister of Labour was a secondary function of the Postmaster-General of Canada. W. L. M. King was the first to hold the office independently. 2The office of Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister of Labour were abolished and the office of Minister of Human Resources Development went in force on July 12, 1996. Under the new provisions, a Minister of Labour may be appointed. However, when no Minister of Labour is appointed, the Minister of Human Resources Development shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Minister of Labour. 3Styled "Minister of Labour and Housing".