John Kean (Canadian politician)
- John Kean (Canadian politician)
John Kean (June 4 1820 – May 31 1892) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Simcoe East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative from 1875 to 1879.
He was born in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland in 1820 and, in 1832, came to Halton County in Upper Canada, where his parents had settled in 1824. He settled at Brantford, where he worked as a millwright, building sawmills and gristmills in the region. In 1850, he married Mary Jordan and the couple moved to Orillia in 1852. Kean served as reeve for the townships of Orillia and Matchedash from 1862 to 1869 and was warden of Simcoe County in 1868. In 1869, with partners, he built a large sawmill at the outlet of the Hogg River at Victoria Harbour.
In 1880, he was sent by the Canadian government to the Fort Macleod area where he built a number of sawmills, including one on Pincher Creek. He later worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1883, Kean settled at Lethbridge, where he built a lumber mill and operated a number of businesses. He died there in 1892.
External links
* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1357 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
* [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32953 "The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1879" CH Mackintosh
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=2856 "A History of Simcoe County", AF Hunter (1909)]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1128 "Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta"]
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NAME = Kean, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = businessman, politician
DATE OF BIRTH = June 4 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH = Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland
DATE OF DEATH = May 31 1892
PLACE OF DEATH = Lethbridge, District of Alberta
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