Silas Alward

1842-1919

Dr. Silas Alward was born 14 April 1840 or 1841 in New Canaan, Queens County, New Brunswick. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1860. In 1871, he received his MA from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied law in Saint John, NB, and was called to the bar in 1866. He was elected by acclamation to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1887. A Liberal, he was re-elected in the 1890, 1892, and 1895 elections but was defeated in the 1899 election. Alward would have his lectures and addresses published, including An oration delivered at the unveiling of a tablet to the memory of Prof. C.F. Hartt, A.M., at Acadia College (1994), The jubilee year: an oration in 1887, Speech delivered at St. Andrews on the record of the Tory party (1887), The unity of the empire : the alumni [oration] delivered at the Encænia of King's College, Windsor, N.S. (1907), An Anglo-American alliance (1911), and The Magna Charta of Canada: a lecture to the students of the school (1914). He wrote an essay on English Factory Legislation for Volume 1.3 of Neith magazine (Saint John, July 1903). Alward died 12 June 1919 and is buried in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, NB.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Saint John

Archival Material

• Alward Family
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  Location

  New Brunswick Museum Archives

  Date Range of Material

  [ca. 1887]

  Extent

  1 letter

  Scope and Content Note

  Letter, attorney general of Nova Scotia James W. Longley to Saint John lawyer Silas Alward re civil procedure reforms and probate jurisdiction. Halifax.  There are other documents related to Alward sprinkled throughout New Brunswick Museum collections.