John Barr (March 4, 1843 – November 19, 1909) was an
Ontario-based
Canadian physician and political figure. He represented
Dufferin in the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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from 1875 to 1879, from 1890 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1904 and in the
House of Commons of Canada
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from 1904 to 1909 as a
Conservative member. From 1890 to 1894, he was a member of the provincial Conservative Equal Rights Party.
He was born near Elizabethtown (later
Brockville) in
Canada West in 1843, the son of
Irish immigrants. He graduated as an
M.D. from
Victoria University in 1866. Barr served as an associated
coroner
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for
Grey County. He was Deputy Master in the South Grey County
Orange Lodge. Barr first set up practice in Horning's Mills but later moved to
Shelburne. In 1880, he married Ermina E. Palmer. After being reelected in 1879, he was unseated after an appeal. He was later reelected several times to the provincial and federal assemblies. He died in office in 1909.
References
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''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891'' JA Gemmill*
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1843 births
1909 deaths
Canadian coroners
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Physicians from Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs