Charles Elijah Fish was a businessman and political figure in New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Canada. He represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

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 from 1899 to 1903 and Northumberland in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1925 to 1926 as a Conservative

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 member.

He was born and educated in Newcastle, New Brunswick

Newcastle, New Brunswick

Newcastle is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick.Prior to municipal amalgamation in 1995, it was an incorporated town and the shire town of Northumberland County....

, the son of the lumber and flour merchant James A. Fish and Elizabeth McAllister. He was a lieutenant in the local militia. Fish became a lumber merchant and building contractor, in 1885 purchasing the French Fort Cove

French Fort Cove

The French Fort Cove is a nature park located in Miramichi, New Brunswick, between Newcastle and Nordin-Miramichi, which contains regular and advanced walking trails, canoeing, kayaking, paddle-boats, a children's playground, ice-cream shop and holds many events and activities during the summer...

 quarry in Newcastle and securing that year the contract to supply sandstone for construction of the Langevin Block

Langevin Block

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 in Ottawa.

Fish later served on the council for Northumberland County

Northumberland County, New Brunswick

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, also serving as county warden, and was at one time mayor of Newcastle. Serving just two years as a Member of Parliament, he was defeated in a bid for reelection to the House of Commons in 1926.

He married Annie Willard and their daughter, Frances

Frances Fish

Frances Lilian Fish, Q.C. , the daughter of Charles Elijah Fish, was the first female law school graduate and lawyer in Nova Scotia, the first woman to run for office in the New Brunswick legislature, and a prominent lawyer in Newcastle, New Brunswick.Fish, a B.A. graduate of University of New...

became a lawer, the first woman admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar.