Recognition
Mair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1889.
In 1937 he was designated a Person of National Historic Significance.
Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot adapted a line from Tecumseh, "There was a time on this fair continent," for the first line in his 1967 historical ballad, "The Canadian Railroad Trilogy" ("There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run").
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