J. Eric Hammill is a farmer and former politician on Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

. He represented Borden-Kinkora in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island

Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island

The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, along with the Lieutenant-Governor, forms the parliament of the province. The General Assembly meets at Province House, which is located at the intersection of Richmond and Great George Streets in Charlottetown....

 from 1996 to 2003 as a Progressive Conservative.

He was born in Lower Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He purchased the family farm in 1954 and, in 1955, married Helen McIsaac. Hammill was president of the Kinkora Dairy Cooperative, Atlantic representative on the National Farm Products Marketing Council for nine years and Secretary-Manager for the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture for twelve years. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and Minister responsible for the P.E.I. Grain Elevators Corporation. Hammill lives in Kinkora

Kinkora, Prince Edward Island

Kinkora is a settlement in Prince Edward Island....

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• Entry from Canadian Who's Who