Martin Burrell
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Martin Burrell (October 15, 1858 – March 20, 1938) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England, Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles east of Grand Forks, British Columbia. His farm was the largest apple tree nursery in the province.
He was elected mayor of Grand Forks, British Columbia in 1903. He first ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative candidate in the 1904 federal election for the constituency of Yale—Cariboo. He was re-elected in the 1908 federal election and again in 1911. In 1917 he was re-elected as a Unionist.
Burrell served as the Minister of Agriculture in the Borden government from 1911 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1919, as Secretary of State of Canada and Minister of Mines. From 1919 to 1920, he was the Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue.
A fire damaged the Parliament Buildings in 1917, and Burrell was badly injured it. From that time he filled the position of librarian for the Library of Parliament. After leaving politics, he remained in Ottawa and kept the position of Parliamentary Librarian until his death in 1938.
Burrell Creek near Grand Forks, British Columbia, is named in his honour.
[edit] External links
- Serving Agriculture: Canada's Ministers of Agriculture
- Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament
- Burrell Creek
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| Preceded by Duncan Ross |
Member of Parliament for Yale—Cariboo 1908–1917 |
Succeeded by The electoral district was abolished in 1914. |
| Preceded by The electoral district was created in 1914. |
Member of Parliament for Yale 1917–1920 |
Succeeded by John Armstrong MacKelvie |
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| Preceded by Arthur Meighen |
Minister of Mines 1917–1919 |
Succeeded by Arthur Meighen |
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| Preceded by Martin Joseph Griffin |
Parliamentary Librarian 1920–1938 |
Succeeded by Francis Aubrey Hardy |
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