Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone

Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone
Member of Parliament for Cape Breton North—Victoria
In office October 1925 – October 1935
Preceded by	Fenwick Lionel Kelly
Succeeded by	Daniel Alexander Cameron
Personal details
Born	Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone (1862-04-10)10 April 1862 Sydney, Nova Scotia
Died	9 March 1936(1936-03-09) (aged 73)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Annie Brown m. 16 June 1892
Profession	physician, surgeon

Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone (10 April 1862 – 9 March 1936) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and became a physician and surgeon.

Johnstone was the grandson of Edmund Murray Dodd (1797–1876), who represented Sydney, Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and served as a Judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He was also a descendant of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution. He was a descendant of the Schuyler family.

Johnstone attended King's College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, then in 1886 graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He became a municipal councillor and mayor of Sydney Mines.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Cape Breton North—Victoria riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected there in 1926 and 1930. Johnstone was defeated in the 1935 election by Daniel Alexander Cameron of the Liberal party.

External links

• Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone – Parliament of Canada biography