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VIDAL, Alexander, Canadian senator, born in Berkshire, England, 4 August, 1819. He accompanied his father, a captain in the royal navy, to Canada in 1834, and settled in Sarnia. He was manager of the Sarnia branch of the Bank of Upper Canada in 1852-'66, and held a similar post in the service of the Bank of Montreal from 1866 till 1875, when he resigned. He is also county treasurer of Lambton, lieutenant-colonel of militia, was elected chairman of the Dominion prohibitionary convention at Montreal in September, 1875, and is president of the Dominion alliance for the total suppression of the liquor traffic. He represented the St. Clair division in the legislative council of Canada from September, 1863, till 1867, and became a member of the Canadian senate, 15 January, 1873.
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