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at his home in Winnipeg. Mr. Daly was born in Stratford Ontario on August 16th 1852. He was the second Son of Thomas Mayne Daly, and Helen McLaren. His childhood was blessed with politics because it was the main topic of conversation at the Dinner Table.  
 
He finished his education at Upper Canada College in Toronto, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1876. He began his law career in Stratford where he gained his first political experience as a Town Councilor, and Chairman of the Public School Board.  
 
In 1879 he married Margaret Annabella Jarvis, daughter of P. R. Jarvis, of Stratford: she bore him two sons: Harold Mayne Daly born, 23rd April 1880, who he died in 1969, and Kenneth Robinson Daly born on 26 February 1883 the date of his death is unknown.  
 
In 1881 he moved to Manitoba, and became the first Lawyer in Brandon, population 100, and on July 3rd 1882 he became the first Mayor of Brandon, Population 3,000, and guided the early development of the city.  
 
He resigned his position of Mayor in December of 1882. From 1887 to 1896 he represented Selkirk in the Dominion House of Commons, and from 1892 to 1896 he was ‘Minister of the Interior’ in the administration of Sir John Thompson, and Sir Mackenzie Bowell. He was not included in the Cabinet formed in 1896 by Sir Charles Tupper, and declined to stand for re-election at the polls.  
 
From 1901 to 1908 he was Police Magistrate of Winnipeg, and from 1909 to his death Judge of the Juvenile Court in Winnipeg.  
Judge Daly died suddenly of a kidney haemorrhage in 1911 at the young age of 59. He was given a Civic Funeral in Winnipeg, but Flags were also flown at half-mast in Brandon.  
 
Mr. Daly was buried at the Avondale Cemetery in Stratford, Ontario with the rest of his pre-deceased family.  
 
Daly Street in Winnipeg, Daly Crescent in Brandon, Daly Bridge on Eighteenth Street in Brandon, and the Rural Municipality of Daly in Manitoba commemorate him. His Brandon home at 122-Eighteenth Street is operated as Daly House Museum.  
 
 
Source: http://www.mts.net/~dalymus/tmdaly.html