James Edgar Jamieson Explained

James Edgar Jamieson
Office1:Ontario MPP
Term Start1:1929
Term End1:1934
Predecessor1:John Henry Mitchell
Successor1:Riding abolished
Constituency1:Simcoe Southwest
Term Start2:1923
Term End2:1926
Predecessor2:William Torrance Allen
Successor2:Riding abolished
Constituency2:Simcoe West
Party:Conservative
Birth Date:20 July 1873
Birth Place:Mulmur, Ontario
Occupation:Farmer

James Edgar Jamieson (July 20, 1873  - June 17, 1958) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Simcoe West from 1923 to 1926 and Simcoe Southwest from 1929 to 1934 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member.

He was born in Mulmur Corners, Mulmur, Ontario. In 1902, he married Sarah M. Crisp, a local schoolteacher. He owned a farm at Singhampton, later moving south of Collingwood. Jamieson served as reeve for Nottawasaga Township. He served thirty years on the executive of the Ontario Good Roads Association and was president in 1935. He was part of a group which convinced the provincial government to raise the hull of HMS Nancy and erect a building over it on Nancy Island near Wasaga Beach.

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