Background
Linsday was born in County Fermanagh, the son of Alexander Lindsay and Elizabeth Hetherington.
Linsday was born in County Fermanagh, the son of Alexander Lindsay and Elizabeth Hetherington.
He represented Carleton County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1862 to 1874 as a Liberal member. Lindsay learned the saddle and harness maker"s trade in Ireland. He came to New Brunswick with his family in 1834 and became a hardware merchant.
Lindsay served in the province"s Executive Council as a minister without portfolio from 1868 to 1870 and as Surveyor General from 1870 to 1871.
In 1874, he was named to the province"s Legislative Council. Surveyor General for the Province and past Postmaster General, Charles Connell,
Commissioner of Public Works and Milltown lumber merchant John McAdam,
George Heber Connell,
William Todd (1803–1873),
Nathan Smart,
Robert A. Hay,
Gilbert West. Vanwart,
Robert Watson,
Zachariah Chipman,
lumber merchant and businessman Joseph Emerson Eaton of Saint Stephen,
Saint Stephen industrialist Freeman H. Todd,
Republican Mayor of Calais, Maine for 1868 Samuel T. King,
and Mayor of Woodstock Lewis P. Fisher.
He was a member of the county council and the town council for Woodstock.