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Type of entity
Person
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Gales, Thomas, 1838-1880
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Description area
Dates of existence
1838-1880
History
Rev. Thomas Gales was born in 1838 in Biddlesdon, Leicestershire, England.
He was a Protestant minister. In 1866, he was a Secretary of Quebec Temperance and Prohibitory League. In 1877, he founded The Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic.
In 1862, he married Ann Marie Wright (1840–1909). He died on October 24, 1880, in Montreal, Quebec.