Patrick Blake was a businessman and politician in Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

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, Canada

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. He represented 5th Queens

5th Queens

5th Queens was an electoral district in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, which elected two members to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1873 to 1993. The district was also known as Charlottetown Common until 1939....

 in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island

Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island

The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, along with the Lieutenant-Governor, forms the parliament of the province. The General Assembly meets at Province House, which is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown....

 from 1883 to 1891 as a Conservative

Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party

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 member.

He was born in Charlottetown

Charlottetown

Charlottetown is a Canadian city. It is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...

 as the son of John Blake, an Irish

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 immigrant. With his brother Maurice, he became a partner in his father's butcher

Butcher

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ing business, later expanding into exporting cattle and wholesale. Blake served on Charlottetown city council from 1880 to 1882. Blake was speaker for the provincial assembly from 1890 to 1891. He was opposed to Confederation

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 but ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1891

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. Blake was a judge and later director for the provincial agricultural exhibition. He helped reorganize the Charlottetown Board of Trade and served as president from 1893 to 1896. He set up business in Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney, Nova Scotia

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in 1901 but returned to the island shortly before his death in Charlottetown in 1909.