Royale (Mich.), Silver Harbour, and Vert Island. He ministered regularly at Prince Arthur’s Landing, saying mass at the house of engineer Simon James

direct communication with Upper Canada [see Simon James Dawson]. An extended crusade to obtain the

DAWSON, SIMON JAMES (baptized James Simon), surveyor, engineer, office holder, and politician; b

expedition, including the serious illness of surveyor Simon James Dawson, Hind was able to make geological

Land. These sentiments were fuelled by reports from the expeditions of John Palliser*, Simon James

for Algoma, which extended across all of northern Ontario. His political morality seems to have matched his business ethics. Elected first by acclamation in a by-election to replace Simon James

region was clouded by the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute [see Simon James Dawson], and the area’s resources remained largely undeveloped. In the spring of 1881 Mather reported to Ottawa’s

1878 [see Simon James Dawson], and then by annexing part of the disputed territory to Manitoba in

British Columbia that year. In the election of 1882 he ran not in Halton but as a Liberal in Algoma. He was defeated by Simon James