John Cranston Bonnell (January 23, 1929 - May 31, 1980) was a

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politician, who represented the electoral district of

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in the

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from 1972 to 1974."John Cranston Bonnell"
. Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. He was first elected to the legislature in a

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on December 4, 1972, after the seat was made vacant by his brother

Lorne Bonnell Mark Lorne Bonnell (January 4, 1923 – October 9, 2006) was a Canadian physician, provincial politician and senator. Born in Hopefield, Prince Edward Island, the son of Lottie and Harry Bonnell, he received his Doctor of Medicine from Dal ...

's appointment to the

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. He served until the 1974 election, in which he did not run for another term. John and Lorne Bonnell were the grandsons of Mark Bonnell, who represented the same electoral district in the 1920s. Bonnell graduated from

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with a medical degree in 1960, and practiced as a physician in Montague, Bedeque and

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. He later specialized in the treatment of

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, and eventually became director of the Prince Edward Island Rehabilitation Centre. He briefly moved to Okolona,

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in 1979 to start a new medical practice there, but returned to Prince Edward Island in April 1980 after falling ill. He died on May 31, 1980, in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonnell, John 1929 births 1980 deaths Politicians from Kings County, Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs Canadian rehabilitation physicians Dalhousie University alumni 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island