Eliakim masai biography of albert

MALCOLM, ELIAKIM, miller, farmer, politician, and rebel; b. 18 March in the township of Oakland, U.C., son of Tryphena and Finlay Malcolm, an early American settler in the area; d. 26 Sept.

, at Scotland, Ont.

A miller and “yeoman” like his father, Eliakim (or “Liak”) Malcolm laid out the village of Scotland and served as surveyor and as a justice of the peace. He married Samantha Sexton in and became the father of eight children.

Malcolm was a vocal Reformer and opposed the administration at York (Toronto) in the s because of its alleged neglect of remote communities such as Oakland and its awarding of lucrative monopolies in transportation and banking to its “extravagant” friends.

Following the lead of Dr Charles Duncombe*, the principal Reformer in the London District, Malcolm and members of his family spoke at protest meetings in Burford and Oakland townships in When the rebellion broke out in December, Scotland was the gathering place for Duncom