Charles Dalton

For the basketball player see Chuck Dalton

Sir Charles Dalton (1850-1933) was a Prince Edward Island businessman, politician and philanthropist.

Fox earned his fortune through silver fox breeding, in the process making the island the centre of the world's trade in the fur-bearing animal.

Fox used his fortune to purchase the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper.[1] He served as a Conservative[2] provincial cabinet minister[3] and then lieutenant-governor of the province from 1930 until his death in 1933.

Dalton became devoted to the fight against tuberculosis after losing a daughter to the disease, donating funds to allow for the construction of a sanatorium on the island which was named in his honour.[4]