John Allan (May 22, 1856 – July 31, 1922) was a
Canadian
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politician. Allan was the
Member of Provincial Parliament for the seat of
Hamilton West from 1914 to 1919.
Biography
He was born in
Guelph
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,
Canada West
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, the son of James Allan, a
Scottish
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*Scottish English
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immigrant. He apprenticed as a builder in
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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and worked in the western
United States
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from 1874 to 1879, when he moved to
New York City
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. In 1881, he married Catherine Euler. He retired from construction in 1906 and returned to Hamilton. He served on the city council and was mayor for two years. Allan was elected to the provincial assembly in a 1914 by-election held after
John Strathearn Hendrie
Sir John Strathearn Hendrie (August 15, 1857 – July 17, 1923) was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1919.
John Hendrie was born in 1857 in Hamilton, Ontario and was educated at Upper Canada College. He became a railway ...
was named Lieutenant-Governor for Ontario.
He died in Hamilton on July 31, 1922.
References
* ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1915'', EJ Chambers
External links
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1856 births
1922 deaths
Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
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