John Alexander Catherwood (October 26, 1857 – December 21, 1940) was a fruit grower, bee keeper and political figure in British Columbia

British Columbia

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. He represented Dewdney

Dewdney (electoral district)

Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney, which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding, which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster...

 from 1920 to 1928 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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 as a Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

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He was born in Bolton Village

Bolton, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, the son of Thomas Catherwood and Ann Abercrombie, and was educated in Caledonia

Caledonia, Ontario

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. In 1886, Catherwood married Edith Margaret Sulloway. He was reeve of Mission, British Columbia

Mission, British Columbia

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for 17 years. Catherwood was unseated in February 1925 by a decision of the B.C. Supreme Court after a recount reduced his majority in the election to 5; he was reinstated in June 1925. He died in Mission City at the age of 83.