Thomas Edwin Kitchen

Thomas Edwin Kitchen (December 18, 1852[1] – April 5, 1897[2]) was an English-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Westminster from 1890 to 1894 and Westminster-Chilliwhack from 1894 to 1897 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

He was born near Lakeside, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Kitchen, and was educated at Wimbledon, Surrey.[1] He came to the Fraser Valley during the 1880s.[3] In 1882, Kitchen married Margaret C. Skovgaard. He served as reeve of Chilliwack.[1] Kitchen died in office in Chilliwack at the age of 45 after an extended illness.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gemmill, John A. (1891). The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891. pp. 372–3. http://www.canadiana.org/view/32961/0396. Retrieved 2011-08-09. 
  2. ^ a b "Life's Labor Ended". Victoria Daily Colonist: p. 5. April 9, 1897. http://www.britishcolonist.ca/tc/1897/04/06/18970406005.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-09. 
  3. ^ "Roads, Ranchers and Reds: A Political Letter of 1894". B.C. Historical News (B.C. Historical Association) 13 (4): 11–16. Summer 1980. http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/bchf/bchn_1980_summer.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-09.