James Alexander McBain (30 May 1910 – 11 August 1988) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and became a farmer by career. McBain held municipal office in Ontario's

Yarmouth Township Central Elgin is a township located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada in Elgin County on Lake Erie. It is part of the London census metropolitan area. History Central Elgin was formed in 1998 through the amalgamation of the Township of Yarmouth w ...

Elgin County Elgin County is a county of the Canadian province of Ontario with a 2016 population of 50,069. Its population centres are St. Thomas, Aylmer, Port Stanley, Belmont, Dutton and West Lorne. The county seat is St. Thomas, which is separated from t ...

first as a councillor in 1940, then as Deputy Reeve from 1945, then was township Reeve in 1947 and 1948. He was elected to Parliament at the Elgin riding in a 22 March 1954 by-election, then re-elected there for general elections in

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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

and

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...

. McBain was defeated by Harold Stafford of the

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in the 1965 federal election. From August 1962 to February 1963, McBain served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport.

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* 1910 births 1988 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario People from St. Thomas, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub