James BeatyQC (November 10, 1831 – March 15, 1899) was a mayor of Toronto from 1879 to 1880. He was then a Member of Canada's Parliament from 1880 to 1887. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
His father was John Beaty, an Irish emigrant. On 10 November 1858, he married a cousin, Fanny Beaty (d. 18 January 1898).
One of his uncles, a previous Canadian Member of Parliament, was also named James Beaty and therefore was referred to in some instances as "James Beaty, Sen." (senior). Conversely, the younger Beaty is sometimes referred to as "James Beaty, Jr.".
Beaty was a prohibitionist during his time in parliament. The Globe newspaper derided him as a "boodler" and "the notorious 'Boy'", and argued that his support for prohibition was based on a hypocritical calculation for personal advantage.[1]
In 1899, James Beaty sustained an apparent stroke from which he would not recover. He died at the Toronto home of his son-in-law, A.J.R. Snow, husband of his only surviving child.
Sources
"Death of Ex-Mayor Beaty". The Globe. 16 March 1899. p. 4.
^"An amazing question" [editorial], The Globe, 8 January 1887, p. 8.
^There were a total of four candidate for the nomination: Denison, Beaty, A.R. Boswell and A.P. Macdonald. D.T. Symons was also nominated, but withdrew. The result of the vote was: Denison 159, Boswell 46, Beaty 36, Macdonald 2. See "West Toronto Tories", The Globe, 27 January 1887, 5. The vote was also mentioned in Ian Stewart, Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba), 2009, p. 7.
