| Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
| John Roxburgh Smith | |
| Office: | Ontario MPP |
| Term Start: | 1967 |
| Term End: | 1977 |
| Predecessor: | New riding |
| Successor: | Brian Charlton |
| Constituency: | Hamilton Mountain |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Birth Date: | 10 November 1936 |
| Birth Place: | London, Ontario |
| Death Place: | Hamilton, Ontario |
| Occupation: | Anglican presbyter |
John Roxburgh Smith (November 10, 1936 – December 6, 2018), listed in some directories as John Roxborough Smith, was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Hamilton Mountain in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1977 as a Progressive Conservative member.
Smith was born in London, Ontario in 1939.[1] He was an alderman for Hamilton, Ontario City Council in the early 1960s.
In the 1967 provincial election, he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the new riding of Hamilton Mountain. He defeated NDP candidate John Dowling by 1,085 votes.[2] He was re-elected in 1971 and 1975.[3] [4] In the 1977
In October 1975, he was appointed as Minister of Correctional Services.[6] In February 1977 he was appointed as Minister of Government Services but served only four months when he was defeated by Charlton in June 1977.[7]
As of 2015, Smith was a minister and archdeacon at St. George's Church in Hamilton.[8] He died in 2018 at the age of 82 in Hamilton, Ontario.[9]