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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Canadian businessman and politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Kenneth Chisholm<br />
| image =<br />
| caption =<br />
| office = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]]<br />
| term_start = 1873<br />
| term_end = 1892<br />
| predecessor = [[John Coyne (politician)|John Coyne]]<br />
| successor = [[John Smith (Peel MPP)|John Smith]]<br />
| constituency = [[Peel (provincial electoral district)|Peel]]<br />
| party = [[Liberal Party of Ontario|Liberal]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1829|3|17}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Toronto Township, Ontario|Toronto Township]], Upper Canada<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1906|9|26|1829|3|17}}<br />
| death_place = [[Brampton]], [[Ontario]]<br />
| occupation = Businessman<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
}}<br />
'''Kenneth Chisholm''' (March 17, 1829 &ndash; September 26, 1906) was an [[Ontario]] businessman and political figure. He represented [[Peel (provincial electoral district)|Peel]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] as a [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]] member from 1873 to 1892.<br />
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He was born in [[Toronto Township, Ontario|Toronto Township]] (now part of [[Mississauga]]) in [[Upper Canada]] in 1829. He started work as a clerk and then as a grain salesman in [[Brampton, Ontario|Brampton]]. He went into business for himself in [[Milton, Ontario|Milton]] but returned to Brampton and, with a partner, bought out his former employer. He served as postmaster from 1855 to 1873 and served several terms as reeve. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in an 1873 by-election held after [[John Coyne (politician)|John Coyne]] died. He was also a director of the Central Bank of Canada. He owned quarries in the [[Credit River]] valley which supplied stone used to build the [[Ontario Legislature]] in [[Toronto]]. In 1880, he invested in the local Haggert Foundry and became vice-president. However, by 1891, both the bank and the foundry had failed and Chisholm was forced to sell his mansion, now a [[Royal Canadian Legion]] hall in Brampton. He was appointed registrar for [[Peel County, Ontario|Peel County]] in 1892 and held that post until his death in Brampton in 1906.<br />
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The Township of [[Chisholm, Ontario|Chisholm]] in Nipissing District was named after him.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.chisholm.ca/en/community/about-us |website=www.chisholm.ca |publisher=Township of Chisholm |access-date=26 June 2025}}</ref><br />
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==Electoral history==<br />
{{1873 Ontario provincial by-elections/Peel}}<br />
{{1875 Ontario general election/Peel}}<br />
{{1879 Ontario general election/Peel}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=kenneth-chisholm}}<br />
*[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6630 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']<br />
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[[Category:1906 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Ontario Liberal Party MPPs]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century mayors of places in Ontario]]<br />
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