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    John Sparrow David Thompson

    Thompson, RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN SPARROW DAVID, jurist and first Catholic Premier of Canada, b. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 10, 1844; d.

    at Windsor Castle, England, December 12, 1894.

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    He was the son of John Sparrow Thompson, queen’s printer in Nova Scotia, superintendent of the money order system, and native of Waterford, and of Catherine Pottinger, who was of Scottish descent. The parents on both sides were rigid Protestants.

    Young Thompson made a short course in the common schools and in the Free Church Academy in his native city. At the age of fifteen he began the study of law and at the same time of stenography.

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  • He was admitted to the bar in 1865 and for a short period he assisted in reporting the debates in the Nova Scotia Legislature. In 1870 he married Miss Annie E. Affieck and shortly afterwards became a Catholic. His progress in public life was rapid and brilliant.

    Beginning as an alderman in Halifax in 1871, he became a member