Angus Alexander Elderkin (18 June 1896 – 22 May 1985) was a

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farmer and politician. Elderkin was a

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member of the

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. He was born in

Wolfville, Nova Scotia Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax. The town is home to Acadia University and Landmark East School. The town is a tourist destination d ...

and became a farmer and fruit grower by career. He was first elected to Parliament at the

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riding in the 1949 general election, but that vote was declared invalid by the

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after Progressive Conservative party candidate George Nowlan complained that some votes from military personnel were mistakenly counted for Annapolis—Kings when those votes should have applied to the home ridings of military service voters. A by-election was held on 19 June 1950 in which Nowlan defeated Elderkin. Elderkin made one more unsuccessful attempt to return to the House of Commons in the 1958 federal election where the riding since became

Digby—Annapolis—Kings Digby—Annapolis—Kings was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the provinces and territories of Canada, province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1949, and ...

, however was defeated by Nowlan on that occasion. He died at a hospital at the age of 88 in his hometown of Wolfville in 1985. His cremated remains were entombed at Willowbank Cemetery in Wolfville."Angus Elderkin, former MP, dies", ''The Chronicle-Herald'', 23 May 1985, pg. 36. Accessed 5 March 2013.

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* 1896 births Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia Liberal Party of Canada MPs 1985 deaths 20th-century Canadian farmers 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Farmers from Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-MP-stub