Christopher Dunkin, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (September 25, 1812 – January 6, 1881) was a Canadian

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 editor, lawyer

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, teacher, judge, and politician.

Born in Walworth, London

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, England

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, the son of Summerhays Dunkin and Martha Hemming, he was educated at the University of London

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, the University of Glasgow

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, and Harvard University

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He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

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 in 1857 for the Quebec riding of Drummond—Arthabaska

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. He then represented the riding of Brome

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  from 1862 until 1867. In 1864, he introduced a temperance act, known as the Dunkin Act. Dunkin was acclaimed for the Brome seat in the 1st Canadian Parliament

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 in 1867

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 as a Conservative

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; he also represented the same riding

Brome (provincial electoral district)

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 provincially from 1867 to 1871. He was re-acclaimed in 1869 by-election after he was appointed Minister of Agriculture

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. He resigned in 1871 when he was appointed a Puisne Justice

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 of the Quebec Superior Court

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