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Asa Belknap Foster

FOSTER, Asa Belknap, Canadian senator, born in Dummerton, Vermont, in 1817; died in Montreal, Canada, 2 November 1877. He was educated in Lower Canada, to which he removed in 1821, and settled in Frost Village. In 1841 he engaged in railroad construct, ion in Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont, and on his return to Canada in 1856 engaged in the same business there. He was elected a member to the Canada assembly from Shefford County, Lower Canada, in 1858, but resigned in 1860, and was returned to the legislative council for Bedford district. After the confederation he was called to the senate of the Dominion, but retired from it in 1875, when he received the contract for the Georgian Bay branch of the Canadian Pacific railway.

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