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The Honourable Mr. Justice John Douglas Armour
Armour Township's namesake is John Douglas
Armour who was born in the Township of Otonabee, in Peterborough
County on May 4, 1830. After graduating with a B.A. from the
University of Toronto in 1850 he studied law in the office
of his brother Robert Armour, and later in the law offices
of P. M. M. VanKoughnet.
He was called to the bar in 1853 and practised
in Cobourg, Canada West, for 25 years, first with Sidney Smith
and later with H. F. Holland. In 1877 he was appointed to
the Court of Queen's Bench of Ontario and was named its Chief
Justice in November 1887. In 1901 he became Chief Justice
of Ontario. The following year on November 21, 1902 he was
appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Three months later,
the federal government appointed him as Canada's representative
on the Alaskan Boundary Commission. He served on the Supreme
Court for only seven months.before he passed away on July
11, 1903 at the age of 73 while working with the Boundary
Commission in London England.
Armour Lake, Steamship Armour, and
Mount Armour
In addition to Armour Township, Armour Lake
(now known as Pickerel Lake) and the Steamboat
Armour, which once plied the Magnetawan River, were also
named after John Douglas Armour. And Mount Armour was named
in 1923 by both the United States Board on Geographic Names
and the Geographic Board of Canada in honour of the original
Canadian member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal of 1903. Mount
Armour is appropriately located in the Canada's Kluane National
Park Reserve near the border between the Yukon Territory and
the State of Alaska. It rises to 8,776 feet above sea level
midway between Whitehorse on the Canadian side and Anchorage
Alaska.
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