Cornelius Gallagher | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Cornelius_Gallagher2.jpg) Cornelius Gallagher circa 1905 as a member of the Edmonton Old Timers' Association | |
| 3rd Mayor of Edmonton | |
| In office October 27, 1896 – December 14, 1896 | |
| Preceded by | Herbert Charles Wilson |
| Succeeded by | John Alexander McDougall |
| Alderman on the Edmonton Town Council | |
| In office January 13, 1893 – January 14, 1895 | |
| In office December 14, 1896 – December 13, 1897 | |
| In office December 9, 1901 – December 14, 1903 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 31, 1854 Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America |
| Died | October 27, 1932 (aged 77) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Spouse |
Exilda Bourre (m. 1888) |
| Children | 2 adopted children |
| Profession | Butcher |
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Cornelius Gallagher (December 31, 1854 – October 27, 1932) was a meat merchant and politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a municipal councillor and briefly as the third mayor of Edmonton.
Gallagher was born in New Brunswick in 1854, the son of an Irish immigrant father. After attending the schools of his birthplace, he moved west to Winnipeg with his family, and became involved in the family meat packing business, established by his father. He would soon move west again to what would later become the province of Saskatchewan, where he would continue his business, providing his product to the local police establishments and soldiers during the North-West Rebellion. After his contracts expired there, Gallagher would move again further west, to Edmonton, where he would permanently settle.
In Edmonton he established the developing town's largest meat packing business, upon land atop the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, overlooking the river valley. He would also get involved with the city's local politics, sitting on the Edmonton Town Council in the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1896, after the incumbent mayor had resigned, the town council selected Gallagher to briefly be the interim mayor until an election was held later that year. He served one more aldermanic term, but retired after defeat in the 1903 and 1907 elections. In 1911, he would also retire from his meat business. In retirement, Gallagher lived on a lavish estate on land he owned atop the Edmonton River Valley until his death in 1932.