See also: Mackenzie

William Lyon Mackenzie (March 12th 1795 – August 28th 1861) was a Journaliste and Politician Écossais - Canadian. It is known especially for its attempt at rebellion fallen through with the High-Canada.

Mackenzie was born with Dundee in Scotland and immigrated with the High-Canada, in 1820. Of 1824 with 1834 it made appear the newspaper The Colonial Advocate in York (today Toronto, Ontario), attacking the members of the " Compact Family " , all resulting from the higher classes, and which had took the control of the government. It used its newspaper as platform to express its personal opinions and those of the Reform party. In answer to that, fifteen young men of rich and famous families of York went to its offices, damaged its press, and threw its cases of typographical natures in the Lake Ontario in 1826. In 1828, it was elected with the legislative Assemblée of High-Canada, but it was excluded from it five times for Diffamation, being re-elected each time.

In 1834, it became the first mayor of Toronto. In 1837, it led the Rébellion of High-Canada against Sir Francis Bond Head and the Family Compact , but it was quickly a failure. Mackenzie escaped from the the United States, or he declared the République of provisional Canada on the island Navy on the Rivière the Niagara. He, thereafter, was imprisoned in the United States for his participation in the Affaire Caroline. An amnesty enabled him to return to Canada in 1849, it became member of the legislative Assemblée of the Province of Canada of 1851 with 1858.

It mourrut in its residence (82 Street Jump), with Toronto, in 1861, and is buried in the necropolis of Toronto. The house where he lived the three last years of his life became a museum.

Its grandson William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister of Canada to three recoveries between 1921 and 1948.