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John Henry Edmison
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Physician, MLA (1922-1927), MLA (1927-1932).
Born at Waterdown, Ontario on 5 April 1872, son of Reverend Henry Edmison (1839-1924), brother-in-law of Henry George Pickard, he was educated at Owen Sound Collegiate and Queen’s University before coming to Manitoba in the 1890s. He graduated from the Manitoba Medical College and practiced medicine for several years at Dunrea before moving to Brandon in 1908. He served as medical examiner for a number of insurance companies and, in 1931, was President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba.
On 3 April 1901, he married May Adelaide “Ada” McMillan (1878-1930) in the RM of Riverside and they had four children: Lillian Evelyn “Lily” Edmison (1904-1996, wife of George Beaubier, daughter-in-law of David Wilson Beaubier), Henry McMillan Edmison (1907-1998), Jack Norman Edmison (1911-1999), and June Katherine Edmison (1918-2016, wife of William Wood, Rodney J. E. Taylor, and John Todd). In 1922, he was elected as an Independent to represent Brandon in the Manitoba Legislature and was re-elected in 1927, serving until his death. He was a member of the AF & AM, Knights of Pythias, Sons of England, and the Presbyterian church.
He died at his Brandon home, 627 Sixteenth Street, on 22 March 1932 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hamilton Provident Block (943 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)
Marriage registration [John Henry Edmison, Mary Adelaide McMillan], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Union leader passes away,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 April 1924, page 5.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
Death registration [John Henry Edmison], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“J. H. Edmison, legislator and physician, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 March 1932. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Death registrations [Lillian Evelyn Beaubier, Henry McMillan Edmison, Jack Norman Edmison], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
John Henry Edmison, FindAGrave.
We thank Jeremy Taylor for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 November 2024
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