John Cranston Bonnell (January 23, 1929 - May 31, 1980) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of

4th Kings 4th Kings was an electoral district in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, which elected two members to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (french: Assemblée législative ...

in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1972 to 1974."John Cranston Bonnell"
. Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. He was first elected to the legislature in a by-election on December 4, 1972, after the seat was made vacant by his brother

Lorne Bonnell Mark Lorne Bonnell (January 4, 1923 – October 9, 2006) was a Canadian physician, provincial politician and senator. Born in Hopefield, Prince Edward Island, the son of Lottie and Harry Bonnell, he received his Doctor of Medicine from Dalh ...

's appointment to the

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. He served until the 1974 election, in which he did not run for another term. John and Lorne Bonnell were the grandsons of Mark Bonnell, who represented the same electoral district in the 1920s. Bonnell graduated from

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...

with a medical degree in 1960, and practiced as a physician in Montague,

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and

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. He later specialized in the treatment of

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, and eventually became director of the Prince Edward Island Rehabilitation Centre. He briefly moved to Okolona, Mississippi in 1979 to start a new medical practice there, but returned to Prince Edward Island in April 1980 after falling ill. He died on May 31, 1980, in Murray River.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonnell, John 1929 births 1980 deaths People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs Canadian rehabilitation physicians Dalhousie University alumni