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style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />July 21, 1896 – October 21, 1899</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Victoria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Lieutenant Governor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Airey_Kirkpatrick" title="George Airey Kirkpatrick">George Airey Kirkpatrick</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Casimir_Gzowski" title="Casimir Gzowski">Casimir Gzowski</a> (acting)<br /><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Mowat" title="Oliver Mowat">Oliver Mowat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Mowat" title="Oliver Mowat">Oliver Mowat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Ross" title="George William Ross">George William Ross</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Provincial_Parliament_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)">Ontario MPP</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1873–1899</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke_Wood" title="Edmund Burke Wood">Edmund Burke Wood</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hiram_Preston" title="Thomas Hiram Preston">Thomas Hiram Preston</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brant_South_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Brant South (provincial electoral district)">Brant South</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1896–1899</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Mowat" title="Oliver Mowat">Oliver Mowat</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_William_Ross" title="George William Ross">George William Ross</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1837-12-14</span>)</span>December 14, 1837<br />Mount Pleasant, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 13, 1901<span style="display:none">(1901-06-13)</span> (aged 63)<br /><a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto, Ontario</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Greenwood Cemetery (original) <br /> Farringdon Burial Ground (current)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Morrison</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur_S_Hardy_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arthur Sturgis Hardy's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Arthur_S_Hardy_Signature.svg/128px-Arthur_S_Hardy_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="34" class="mw-file-element" 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class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in Mount Pleasant, <a href="/wiki/Brant_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Brant County">Brant County</a>, in 1837, Hardy was the son of Russell and Juletta (Sturgis) Hardy, <a href="/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a>. He studied at the <a href="/wiki/Rockwood_Academy_(Ontario)" title="Rockwood Academy (Ontario)">Rockwood Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rockwood,_Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Rockwood, Ontario">Rockwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a>, and he became town solicitor for Brantford in 1867, a bencher of the <a href="/wiki/Law_Society_of_Upper_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Law Society of Upper Canada">Law Society of Upper Canada</a> in 1875, and a <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Counsel">QC</a> in 1876. On January 19, 1870, he married Mary Morrison, daughter of Judge <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Curran_Morrison" title="Joseph Curran Morrison">Joseph Curran Morrison</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>First elected to the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Ontario" title="Legislative Assembly of Ontario">Legislative Assembly of Ontario</a> in 1873, he was promoted to the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_(government)" title="Cabinet (government)">Cabinet</a> of Sir <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Mowat" title="Oliver Mowat">Oliver Mowat</a> in 1877 as <a href="/wiki/Provincial_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Provincial Secretary">Provincial Secretary</a>. In 1889, as Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hardy established the <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_Provincial_Park" title="Algonquin Provincial Park">Algonquin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rondeau_Provincial_Park" title="Rondeau Provincial Park">Rondeau</a> provincial parks. Well known for his support of Mowat's liberalism, he was described in <i><a href="/wiki/Grip_Ltd." title="Grip Ltd.">Grip</a></i> as a hard-nosed and down-to-earth politician in Mowat's service: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The more wickeder he is, playing euchre and swearing and entertaining thirsty strangers, the brighter does the virtue of Mowat shine by contrast.</p></blockquote> <p>Entering his sixties and having been in government for over twenty years, Hardy lacked the energy and strength to take the government forward or excite the populace when he succeeded Mowat as both Premier and <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Ontario" title="Attorney General of Ontario">Attorney-General</a> in 1896. Initially reluctant to accept the positions, he said: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>you know how very difficult it is in this wicked world to let high honours pass.</p></blockquote> <p>Aware of his weakness, he relied heavily on his minister of education, <a href="/wiki/George_William_Ross" title="George William Ross">George William Ross</a>. </p><p>Because there were Liberal governments in both Ottawa and Ontario, Hardy was urged to reassure French-speaking Catholics' concerns over the <a href="/wiki/Manitoba_Schools_Question" title="Manitoba Schools Question">Manitoba Schools Question</a> by appointing <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Eug%C3%A8ne-Alfred_%C3%89vanturel" class="mw-redirect" title="François-Eugène-Alfred Évanturel">François-Eugène-Alfred Évanturel</a> as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. In the <a href="/wiki/1898_Ontario_general_election" title="1898 Ontario general election">1898 election</a>, Hardy's government was returned with a narrow six seat majority due to the collapse of the agrarian <a href="/wiki/Patrons_of_Industry" title="Patrons of Industry">Patrons of Industry</a> party which had served as the Liberal's allies in the legislature, as well as the rise of Catholic and urban support for the Conservatives under <a href="/wiki/James_Pliny_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="James Pliny Whitney">James Pliny Whitney</a>. </p><p>Hardy's most significant—and controversial—achievement occurred in 1898 with passage of an Act providing for all pine cut under licence on crown lands to be sawn into lumber in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michigan lumbermen sought to have the amendment <a href="/wiki/Disallowance_and_reservation_in_Canada" title="Disallowance and reservation in Canada">disallowed</a> for encroaching on the federal <a href="/wiki/Trade_and_commerce_(Canadian_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade and commerce (Canadian law)">trade and commerce</a> power, but <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier" title="Wilfrid Laurier">Wilfrid Laurier</a>'s government refused to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Exhausted and needing money, Hardy retired from politics in 1899 and died two years later from appendicitis.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hardy's body was originally interred at Greenwood Cemetery, however 34 years after his death, his son <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Charles_Hardy" title="Arthur Charles Hardy">Arthur Charles Hardy</a> had the remains of Hardy, his wife, and their daughter Gladys Mary Starr moved to Farringdon Burial Ground.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected in <a href="/wiki/Brantford" title="Brantford">Brantford</a>, Ontario, by the province to commemorate Hardy's role in <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>'s history.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 25, 2009, a new plaque was unveiled to commemorate Hardy under the initiative of Premiers' Gravesites Program.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local politicians, guests and family members paid tribute to the former politician. The family included his great-great-great-granddaughter and the children of his great-nephew <a href="/wiki/Hagood_Hardy" title="Hagood Hardy">Hagood Hardy</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:668px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output 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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div>Ontario provincial by-election, May 1873: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brant_South_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Brant South (provincial electoral district)">Brant South</a></span><br />Resignation of <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke_Wood" title="Edmund Burke Wood">Edmund Burke Wood</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arthur Sturgis Hardy</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,288</td> <td style="text-align:right;">53.76</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.45 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>J.J. Hawkins</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,108</td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.24</td> <td style="text-align:right;">  </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">2,396</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">100.0  </span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">+7.73</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td style="background:#EA6D6A;color:black; border-top:1px solid darkgray;"> </td> <td colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">+6.45 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Source: <i>History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario</i><sup id="cite_ref-Lewis1968_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis1968-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" 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style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arthur Sturgis Hardy</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">Acclaimed </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Elections_Ontario" title="Elections Ontario">Elections Ontario</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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district)">Brant South</a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Ministerial_by-election" title="Ministerial by-election">Ministerial by-election</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arthur Sturgis Hardy</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">Acclaimed </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Source: <i>History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario</i><sup id="cite_ref-Lewis1968_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis1968-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:616px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1879_Ontario_general_election/Brant_South" title="Template:1879 Ontario general election/Brant South"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1879_Ontario_general_election/Brant_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Template talk:1879 Ontario general election/Brant South"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1879_Ontario_general_election/Brant_South" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1879 Ontario general election/Brant South"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><a href="/wiki/1879_Ontario_general_election" title="1879 Ontario general election">1879 Ontario general election</a>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brant_South_(provincial_electoral_district)" title="Brant South (provincial electoral district)">Brant South</a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arthur Sturgis Hardy</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,622</td> <td style="text-align:right;">56.87 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Conservative</a></td> <td>Mr. Wilson</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,230</td> <td style="text-align:right;">43.13 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">2,852</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">60.93</span> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Eligible voters </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">4,681</span> </td></tr> <tr style="color:black;background-color:white"> <td style="color:black;background:#EA6D6A; width:16px; border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;"> </td> <td colspan="2" style="border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Liberal_Party" title="Ontario Liberal Party">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:right;border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;display:none;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:border-top:1px solid darkgray;display:none">– </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Elections_Ontario" title="Elections Ontario">Elections Ontario</a><sup id="cite_ref-ElectionsOnt1879_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ElectionsOnt1879-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit 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(1886). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20180867"><i>A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time</i></a>. Toronto: Rose Publishing Co. pp. 629–630.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Cyclopedia+of+Canadian+Biography%3A+Being+Chiefly+Men+of+the+Time&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pages=629-630&rft.pub=Rose+Publishing+Co.&rft.date=1886&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fadedpage.com%2Fshowbook.php%3Fpid%3D20180867&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArthur+Sturgis+Hardy" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/ontariorecordofl00onta#page/n3/mode/2up"><i>Ontario - Record of the Liberal Government: 26 Years of Progressive Legislation and Honest Administration, 1872–1898</i></a>. Toronto: Ontario Liberal Association. 1898.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ontario+-+Record+of+the+Liberal+Government%3A+26+Years+of+Progressive+Legislation+and+Honest+Administration%2C+1872%E2%80%931898&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=Ontario+Liberal+Association&rft.date=1898&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fontariorecordofl00onta%23page%2Fn3%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArthur+Sturgis+Hardy" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrevor1973" class="citation thesis cs1">Trevor, David Owen (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/s4-bin/Main/ItemDisplay?l=0&l_ef_l=-1&id=491533.378670&v=1&lvl=1&coll=18&rt=1&rsn=S_WWWlcaZQ20eP&all=1&dt=NW+%7cTrevor,%7c+AND+%7cDavid%7c+AND+%7cOwen%7c&spi=-&rp=1&vo=1"><i>Arthur S. Hardy and Ontario politics, 1896–1899</i></a> (M.A.). <a href="/wiki/University_of_Guelph" title="University of Guelph">University of Guelph</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=Arthur+S.+Hardy+and+Ontario+politics%2C+1896%E2%80%931899&rft.inst=University+of+Guelph&rft.date=1973&rft.aulast=Trevor&rft.aufirst=David+Owen&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Famicus.collectionscanada.ca%2Fs4-bin%2FMain%2FItemDisplay%3Fl%3D0%26l_ef_l%3D-1%26id%3D491533.378670%26v%3D1%26lvl%3D1%26coll%3D18%26rt%3D1%26rsn%3DS_WWWlcaZQ20eP%26all%3D1%26dt%3DNW%2B%257cTrevor%2C%257c%2BAND%2B%257cDavid%257c%2BAND%2B%257cOwen%257c%26spi%3D-%26rp%3D1%26vo%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArthur+Sturgis+Hardy" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged April 2024">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Sturgis_Hardy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurley1994" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Burley, David G. (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6766">"Hardy, Arthur Sturgis"</a>. In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a></i>. 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