Joseph Norman Bond (May 28, 1758 – March 15, 1830) was a Canadian doctor and judge.
Joseph Bond was born in Neston, England to James and Mary Bond. After receiving his medical training in London, Bond traveled to New York, where he joined the British army. Bond was at the surrender at the Siege of Yorktown on October 19, 1781. For some time he administered medicine to troops made prisoner with John Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis. In 1783 he came to Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
The following year Bond moved to Yarmouth. For about twenty years he was the only regular physician in what is now Yarmouth County. In 1802 Bond received a small packet of cowpox vaccine from his brother Norman, a doctor in Bath, and proceeded to vaccinate an infant child against smallpox. This treatment is reputed to be the first use of cowpox vaccine in Canada, although there is evidence of its use at an earlier date by John Clinch in Newfoundland and George Thomas Landmann in Quebec, and Simeon Perkins makes apparent reference to its use as well at the end of 1800 in Liverpool.
A devout Anglican, Bond was elected a churchwarden when the Church of England parish was organized in Yarmouth on September 29, 1806. In addition, he was made justice of the peace for Yarmouth Township in December 1803, justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Yarmouth Township in May 1810, and commissioner of courts for the trial of summary actions for the district of Yarmouth in 1817. In 1819 he was appointed justice of the peace for Shelburne County.
In May 1802 he was appointed the commissioner for building the Tusket River bridge, which was completed the next year. Early in 1811 he and some others formed an association known as the Yarmouth Lock and Canal Proprietors in order to construct locks which would connect Yarmouth Harbour with lakes in the interior of the township. The enterprise was ultimately unsuccessful. In July of the same year Bond, together with the Reverend Ranna Cossit and Samuel Sheldon Poole, became a trustee responsible for the construction of the Yarmouth Grammar School.
After his death in 1830, three of his sons followed him in his profession, two practising as doctors in Yarmouth. His son James was appointed to the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia in 1837. His daughter Anne married judge Thomas Ritchie.