Leonidas Burwell (January 22, 1818 – August 7, 1879) was a businessman and political figure in
Canada West. He represented
East Elgin in the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper C ...
from 1857 to 1866.
He was born in
Port Talbot,
Upper Canada, the son of
Mahlon Burwell. He served as deputy registrar of lands for
Middlesex County. Burwell took over his father's business at
Port Burwell in 1842.
Burwell was also a
justice of the peace
A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
. In 1843, he married Phoebe Jane Wrong.
References
''The Canadian parliamentary companion first year'', HJ Morgan (1862)
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1818 births
1879 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West
Canadian justices of the peace