Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone
- Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone (10 April 1862 – 9 March 1936) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and became a physician and surgeon. He is the grandson of Edmund Murray Dodd (1797-1876), who represented Sydney, Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and served as a Judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.
- He is also a descendant of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution.
- He is a descendant of the Schuyler family. Johnstone attended King's College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, then in 1886 graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
- He became a municipal councillor and mayor of Sydney Mines.He was first elected to Parliament at the Cape Breton North—Victoria riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected there in 1926 and 1930.
- Johnstone was defeated in the 1935 election by Daniel Alexander Cameron of the Liberal party.
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