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'''Edward Alexander Colquhoun''' (September 14, 1844 &ndash; November 16, 1904) was mayor of [[Hamilton, Ontario]], Canada from 1897 to 1898. He represented [[Hamilton West (provincial electoral district)|Hamilton West]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1898 to 1902 as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|Conservative]] member.<ref name=parlgd>{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |last=Magurn |first=Arnott J |year=1901}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Alex Colquhoun, MPP |url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=2016 |website=ontla.on.ca |publisher=[[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] |access-date=February 12, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223070227/http://ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=2016 |archive-date=December 23, 2010}}</ref>

The son of James Colquhoun, a barrister, he was born in [[Ayr, Ontario|Ayr]], [[Canada West]] and was educated in Berlin, Ontario (later [[Kitchener, Ontario|Kitchener]]). In 1864, Colquhoun began work with the [[Bank of Montreal]] in [[Ottawa]], He joined the [[Bank of Hamilton]] in 1872;<ref name=parlgd/> he became bank manager in 1882<ref name=whitehern/> and retired in 1887. In 1881, Colquhoun married Evelyn Gourlay.<ref name=parlgd/> The family lived in Barton lodge on the Hamilton mountain,<ref name=whitehern/> which had been built by [[James Matthew Whyte]],<ref>{{cite DCB |ID=3724 |name=Whyte, James Matthew |last=Burley |first=David G |volume=7 |access-date=February 12, 2016}}</ref> who was Colquhoun's wife's uncle.

He was elected to the Ontario assembly in 1898, but was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1902, running as an independent. He died two years later following surgery to remove a growth from his neck.<ref name=whitehern/>

His daughter [[Kathryn Colquhoun|Kathryn]] became a writer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/244 |title=Colquhoun, Kathryn E. |work=Canada's Early Women Writers |publisher=Simon Fraser University |access-date=February 12, 2016 |archive-date=February 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215145337/http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/244 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Colquhoun Park in Hamilton was created as a memoriam to the Colquhoun estate in a land agreement that was made through [[expropriation]] and subsequently broken.<ref name=whitehern>{{cite web |url=http://www.whitehern.ca/result.php?doc_id=W4549 |title=W4549 to [Rev.] Calvin McQuesten from his mother, Mary Baker McQuesten (footnotes) |work=Whitehern Museum Archives |access-date=February 12, 2016}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.today/20130115185139/http://www.myhamilton.ca/people/edward-alexander-colquhoun-1897-1898 Hamilton Public Library profile]
* {{Ontario MPP biography|id=andrew-alex-colquhoun|name=Andrew Alex Colquhoun}}

{{Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario}}

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