{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hillyard Mitchell | image = Hillyard Mitchell.jpg | image_size = 129px | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|9|16}} | birth_place = England | death_date = {{death date and age|1923|3|2|1852|9|16}} | death_place = Victoria, British Columbia | office = MLA for Batoche | term_start = 1888 | term_end = 1891 | predecessor = | successor = Charles Nolin | office2 = MLA for Mitchell | term_start2 = 1891 | term_end2 = 1898 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = Joseph McIntyre | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | website = }}
'''Hilliard "Hillyard" Mitchell''' (September 16, 1852 – March 2, 1923)<ref>[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=fs:1538285&r=r_408085390&pn=p1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124092809/http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html |date=2010-11-24 }}</ref> was a politician from the Canadian prairies.
Hillyard was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in the 1888 Northwest Territories general election. He beat opponent James Fisher 82 to 65 in a hotly contested vote to become the first member from the Batoche electoral district.
In the 1891 Northwest Territories general election James ran for a second term, this time switching to the new Mitchell electoral district. Hillyard was acclaimed in this election and acclaimed twice more until his retirement from the legislature in 1898.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071024092624/http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=&ex=00000134&sl=2168&pos=1 Community Memories, Duck Lake Regional Interpretive Centre] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060113073236/http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> History of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly 1876 - 1905]
{{s-start}} {{s-par|ca-nt}} {{s-new| rows = 2 | district}} {{s-ttl| title = Member of the Legislative Assembly for Batoche | years = 1888–1891 }} {{s-aft| after = Charles Nolin }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of the Legislative Assembly for Mitchell | years = 1891–1898 }} {{s-aft| after = Joseph McIntyre }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Hillyard}} Category:19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Category:British emigrants to Canada Category:1852 births Category:1923 deaths