David Laird Mathieson

MATHIESON, DAVID LAIRD, lawyer; b. 5 March 1903 in Georgetown, son of John Alexander Mathieson, and Mary Alice Laird; m. first 17 June 1930 Louise MacKinnon, and they had one child, John A.; m. secondly Elizabeth Jaggs of Vancouver, who had a daughter, Susan; Presbyterian; d. 15 February 1993 in Vancouver. Mathieson, a Conservative, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1947 for 5th Queens. He was defeated in the general election of 1939 for 5th Kings and in the general election of 1951 for 5th Queens. Mathieson came from a political family. His father served as premier and then Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island, and his mother was the daughter of David Laird*. Mathieson was educated at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and at McGill University in Montreal. He was called to the Prince Edward Island Bar in 1928, and practised law in the province from 1928 to 1939, and from 1945 to 1952 with Bell, Mathieson and Foster, a firm that included Reginald Bell*. In September 1952, Mathieson and his family moved to Edmonton, where he worked as a senior solicitor for Interprovincial Pipelines. In 1971 Mathieson and his family retired to Vancouver, where he was admitted to that province's Bar and did legal work on behalf of British Columbia's aboriginal peoples. David Mathieson died 15 February 1993. Louise Mathieson was the daughter of Charles MacKinnon.