James Lesslie
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James Lesslie was an Ontario bookseller, reform politician and newspaper publisher. His career was closely associated with - and somewhat overshadowed by - William Lyon Mackenzie, the Reform agitator,
The Mechanics Institute in the Second Market building in York (Toronto)
The Sharon Temple of the Children of Peace
The Reform movement in Upper Canada was a political movement in British North America in the mid-19th century.
James Lesslie
…unemployed), the Bank of the People, as well as the political parties known as the Canadian Alliance Society and Clear Grits. In many way, he defined the Reform movement in Upper Canada without having reverted to the violent methods of Mackenzie. His legacy may thus have lasted longer. James Lesslie was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1802…
William Lyon Mackenzie, Radical Reform Leader
Bust of Robert Fleming Gourlay
First page of the Reform Act 1832