James Conmee

James Conmee was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Algoma West from 1885 to 1902 and Port Arthur and Rainy River from 1902 to 1904 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and Thunder Bay and Rainy River in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1911 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Sydenham Township, Canada West in 1848, the son of Irish immigrants Matthew and Rosanna Conmee. He trained with a New York cavalry regiment near the end of the American Civil War. James was underage when he and his brother John sought adventure and joined the US cavalry. under General Custer. He served as bugle boy and slept in a bag at Custers feet. He was eventually put in charge of the Indian Scouts and led a group of representatives fromNations. Throughout his life, he kept buckskins for adventures in the wild and was buried in his favourite buckskins. In 1872, at the age ofhe moved to Fort William to work at a sawmill on the Kaministiquia River. In 1874, he married Emily Florence Cox. From 1876 to 1877, he held the contract to deliver mail between Silver Islet and Pigeon River. He was a contractor involved in laying track for the Canadian Pacific Railway in northern Ontario, later working on contracts for the Algoma Central Railway, Port Arthur, Duluth and

Source: Wikipedia