James Pascoe
{{Short description|British politician and farmer (1863–1931)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}
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| name = James Pascoe
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1863|11|29}}
| birth_place = Cornwall, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|09|07|1863|11|29}}
| death_place = Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
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| occupation = Farmer, politician
| spouse = {{Marriage|Mary Olton|1887}}
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| office1 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
| constituency1 = Moose Jaw City
| term_start1 = 1921
| term_end1 = 1925
| office2 = Mayor of Moose Jaw
| term_start2 = 1913
| term_end2 = 1915
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James Pascoe (November 29, 1863 – September 7, 1931) was a British-born farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Moose Jaw City in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1925 as an independent Conservative.
Biography
He was born in Cornwall on November 29, 1863, the son of John Pascoe and Marjorie Wills, and came to Canada around 1870.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTkzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1304 |title=Who's Who in Canada, Volume 16 |editor1-first=Charles Whately |editor1-last=Parker |editor2-first=Barnet M. |editor2-last=Greene |publisher=International Press |page=1304 |year=1922 |access-date=2020-07-19 |via=Google Books}} The family first settled in North Dorchester, Ontario; in 1892, his parents moved to a homestead near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan where they spent the rest of their lives. Pascoe acquired his own homestead near Regina around 1883. After four years, he moved to Michigan and then back to Ontario; during this time, he was involved in the lumber business. Pascoe married Mary Olton in 1887. In 1891, he travelled west again, settling on his own homestead near Moose Jaw. He served as chairman of the Local Improvement District surrounding Moose Jaw and then, after he moved his residence to Moose Jaw, as a member of Moose Jaw City Council. Pascoe was mayor of Moose Jaw from 1913 to 1915.{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=164944 |title=The story of Saskatchewan and its people |volume=2 |last=Hawkes |first=John |pages=1261–3 |year=1924 |accessdate=2012-04-02}} He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1925 as a Conservative.{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |accessdate=2012-03-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112235500/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |archivedate=2013-11-12 }} Pascoe served as mayor of Moose Jaw again from 1929 until his death in 1931.{{cite web |url=http://www.moosejaw.ca/?service=moose-jaw-mayors |title=Moose Jaw Mayors |publisher=City of Moose Jaw |accessdate=2012-04-02}} He died at the age of 67 of a heart attack in a Moose Jaw suburb while attempting to shovel away sand that had been blown around his car by the wind.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MDXtHm0nYcC&pg=PA97 |title=Moose Jaw: people, places, history |page=97 |last=Larsen |first=John |author2=Libby, Maurice Richard |isbn=1550501631 |year=2001 |publisher=Coteau Books |accessdate=2012-04-02}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55653574/mayor-pascoe-dies-suddenly-in-moose-jaw/ |title=Mayor Pascoe Dies Suddenly in Moose Jaw |newspaper=Regina Leader-Post |location=Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |page=1 |date=1931-09-08 |access-date=2020-07-19 |via=Newspapers.com}}
His son James Ernest was also a Moose Jaw mayor and served in the Canadian House of Commons.{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4092479 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905160323/http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4092479 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |title=From Buffalo trails to blacktop : a history of the R.M. of Caron #162 |page=309 |year=1982 |author=Caron History Book Committee |accessdate=2012-04-02 }}
Electoral results (partial)
{{1925 Saskatchewan general election/Moose Jaw City}}
See also
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References
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Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Category:British emigrants to Canada
Category:Canadian people of Cornish descent
Category:Farmers from Cornwall
Category:20th-century British farmers
Category:20th-century mayors of places in Saskatchewan
Category:Independent MLAs in Saskatchewan
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