Philip Bernard Rynard | |
Birth Date: | 1897 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Udora, Ontario |
Death Place: | Orillia, Ontario |
Riding: | Simcoe East |
Predecessor: | William Alfred Robinson |
Successor: | riding dissolved |
Term Start: | 1957 |
Term End: | 1968 |
Riding2: | Simcoe North |
Predecessor2: | Heber Smith |
Successor2: | Doug Lewis |
Term Start2: | 1968 |
Term End2: | 1979 |
Profession: | Physician, surgeon |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Philip Bernard Rynard (25 June 1897 - 20 November 1980) was a Canadian physician, surgeon, and politician.
Born in Udora, Ontario, he received his medical education at Queen's University. He was a Medical Health Officer for the province of Ontario and practiced medicine in Orillia.
He first ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1953 federal election for the riding of Simcoe East. A Progressive Conservative, he was elected in the 1957 election. He was re-elected in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, and 1974. He was the physician to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.[1]
Rynard suffered a stroke in February 1980. He died in Orillia that November.
There is a Philip Bernard Rynard fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[2] Archival reference number is R3303.