Edward Palmer (Canadian politician)
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Edward Palmer (September 1, 1809 – November 3, 1889) was a Canadian politician born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and resided in Prince Edward Island until his death. He is considered one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation,[1] despite his opposition to Confederation, as he was a delegate to both the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences.
Edward Palmer was the son of James Bardin Palmer, an Irish barrister who had come to the Island at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and Millicent Jones. He attended grammar school before becoming a law clerk in his father's law firm.[2] He was called to the bar in 1830 and thereafter he worked as a lawyer, land agent, land proprietor, politician, and judge, being appointed Queen's Counsel in 1873. He was a very active politician and later a judge. He married Isabella Tremain in 1846. He acted as a land agent and was a landed proprietor but, after experiencing long term conflict with his tenant farmers, he sold his substantial landholdings in 1870. He was irish as his father was also irish and he is an irish decent.
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