James Garden
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use Canadian English James Ford Garden (February 19, 1847 – December 9, 1914)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a Canadian engineer and the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900. Under his tenure the city developed a street car system, sidewalks, road grades and water connections.
Born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, the son of H. M. G. and E. Jane (Gale) Garden, Garden was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1894. He was a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps in the North-West Rebellion in 1885 and was wounded in the Battle of Batoche. From 1898 to 1900, he was mayor of Vancouver.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Burrard in the 1900 federal election.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
After an unsuccessful attempt in the 1898 provincial election, he was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a British Columbia Conservative Party MLA for Vancouver City in 1900 and re-elected in a 1901 byelection and in the general elections of 1903 and 1907. He did not stand for a fifth term in the 1909 provincial election.
He died of a stroke at his home at 679 Granville Street, Vancouver.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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- British Columbia Conservative Party MLAs
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- Mayors of Vancouver
- People of the North-West Rebellion
- People from Woodstock, New Brunswick
- 19th-century mayors of places in British Columbia
- 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia