Nathaniel Currie

Background

His father, Nathaniel Currie Sn.

Career

Born of Irish immigrants in Chinguacousy, Upper Canada, the family farmed in the Glencoe area. petitioned for land in Mosa County, from York where he had originally petitioned for land in Upper Canada. Currie married Elizabeth Weeks in Mosa in 1845 having ten children together. He was buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Mosa, Row 11, northern

17 at age 74.

As an early settler of Mosa Township, he became a Conservative provincial political figure and later Reeve of Glencoe village for many years. He did not run in the election 1871 but did run again for the Provincial Legislature in 1882, losing to George William Ross by a vote of 1651-1597. Committees

As an Master in Public Policy, he worked on the following Committees:

Standing Committee on Railways

Select Committee to consider Bill 46 (To Prevent the Setting of Fires at certain seasons of the year)

Select Committee to consider Bill 91 (To Prevent the spreading of Canada Thistle in Upper Canada—Chapter 40

Select Committee to consider Bill 58 (An Acting regulating Lincolnshire fences and Watercourses)

Select Committee to consider Bill 37 (To Amend the Jury law)

Select Committee to consider the expediency of altering and amending the existing municipal and assessment laws of Ontario

Select Committee to consider Bill 30, An Acting for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Horticulture, Arts and Manufactures

Select Committee to consider Bill 68, An Acting amend the Acting respecting joint Stock Companies for the construction of Roads and other works in Upper Canada

Special Committee to consider the Municipal and Assessments Acting

Bills Introduced

Currie introduced a bill in March 1874 to provide for female suffrage and the political representation of real property according to value.

The bill stated that real property should be the basis of the vote and dual or plural votes per property should be allowed.

Women of age holding property should be included in this vote. After much discussion the Farmers" Sons Franchise Acting was passed in 1877, providing the vote to sons of land owners on the basis of property according to value, but not women.

Municipal Council (Glencoe)

County Council (Mosa)

Director of the Agricultural Society 1879

President of the Agricultural Society 1883-1886

Committee to erect a local high school

Committee to acquire land for a local cemetery

Local Justice for Glencoe, Ontario.

Achievements

• Reeve Currie, the unofficial founder of the village, is reputed to have upheld the Black Donnellys right to walk freely in the streets of Glencoe.