Gavin Fleming
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name = Gavin Fleming
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| constituency_MP = Brant North
| parliament = Canadian
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| predecessor = John Young Bown
| successor = James Somerville
| term_start =1872
| term_end =1882
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| birth_place = near Falkirk, Scotland
| death_date ={{death date and age|1890|5|17|1826|6|5}}
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| party = Liberal
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Gavin Fleming (June 5, 1826 – May 17, 1890) was a Canadian merchant and political figure. He represented Brant North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1882 as a Liberal member.
Fleming was born near Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of John Fleming and Margaret Dobbie, and was educated there. He came to Canada in 1849; his parents had come to Upper Canada in 1831. Fleming was a merchant at Glenmorris until he retired from business in 1871 and served four years as treasurer for South Dumfries Township. In 1852, he married Margaret Laprairik. He was named a justice of the peace in 1863.
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External links
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- {{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32951/147 |page=145 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register |year=1877 |publisher=Citizen Printing and Publishing Company |editor-last=Mackintosh |editor-first=C.H. |editor-link=Charles Herbert Mackintosh |location=Ottawa}}
- [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3727 The History of the County of Brant, Ontario : containing a history of the county ..., CP Mulvany (1883)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516202620/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3727 |date=16 May 2011 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071214125413/http://web.mac.com/nathangordon/iWeb/Memorial/Gavin%20Fleming.html Memorial Web page for Gavin Fleming]
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Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Category:British emigrants to pre-Confederation Canada
Category:Canadian justices of the peace
Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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