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 266 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ^anforD ot fl^amiltiDn antr SWtsanfortr. SANFORD, HON. WILLIAM ELI, of Hamilton, and of Wesanford, Muskota, Canada, senator of the Dominion of Canada, h. in tte city of New York, 1836 ; m. first, at Hamilton, 1859, Emeline, only daughter of the late Edward Jackson, Esq., but by her (who d. 1860, and was buried at Hamilton, Ontario) had no issue. He m. secondly, 1866, at Ottawa, Harriet Sophia, daughter of the late Thomas Vaux, Esq. of Ottawa, Ontario, and by her has had issue,' I. Edward Jackson, h. 24.th June, 1867. II. Harry, h. May, 1869, deceased. I. Edna Blanche, b. 30th December, 1872. II. Emma Muriel, h. 29th May, 1875. HtncagE. The Hon. "W. E. Sanford is belie-red to be a descendant of Thomas de Sanfoed (see Burke's Landed Gentry), tvIlo was knighted by William the Conqtjeeob on the battle- field of Hastings. The American branch of the family settled in Redding, Connecticut, and one of its members, Ezekiel Sanford, engineer, built Fort Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1626. Eli Sanpoed, Esq., the father of the Hon. William Eli Saneoed, was b. at Bedding, Connecticut, 1782 ; and m. Emeline, second daughter of the late Thomas M. Argall, of New York city. She was b. 1810, in New York, and d. there, 1836. He d. in New York, 1838. Arms used — Per chev. sa. and erm. in chief tiBo boars' heads coiiped close or. Crest — Out of a ducal coronet gn. a boar's head and neck or. Motto — Nee temere nee timide. Residences — Hamilton ; and Wesanford, Muskota, Canada. .Ei^a^e— Westbourne, Westboume, Mani- toba (75,000 acres). jWcBxiiisall of ©ttatoa> MC"pvOUGALL, HON. WILLIAM, C.B. (1867), Q.C., of Ottawa, I 7 Canada, h. 1822 ; educated at Victoria University, Cobourg ; admitted as an attorney, Upper Canada, 1847 ; called to the bar. Upper Canada, in Hilary term, 1862 ; Q.C. 1881. In 1848 he founded the Canada Farmer, subsequently merged in the Canadian Agriculturist, which he published and edited until 1858 ; in 1850 founded the North American, of which he was chief editor until 1857, when it was merged in the Toronto Daily Globe, on the staff of which he was the leading political writer, from 1857 to 1860 ; repre- sented Canada at the New York Exhibition, 1853 ; was secretary of the Constitutional Reform Association of Upper Canada, 1859 ; member of the Executive Council and commissioner of Crown Lands, Canada, from May, 1862 to March, 1864 ; provincial secretary from June, 1864, and acting minister of Marine from July, 1866, until the Union, 1867 ; sworn a member of the Privy Council in Canada, and was minister of Public Works for the Dominion, from 1st July, 1867 ; lieutenant-governor of Rupert's Land and the North- West Territories, October, 1869 ; chairman of the commission appointed to open trade relations with the West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil, 1865-6 ; delegate to the Charlottetown Union Conference, 1864 ; to that at Quebec, in the same year ; and to the Colonial Conference in London, to complete terms of Union of the British North American Provinces,