John Steele (Nova Scotia politician)

John Steele (died ca 1762) was a surgeon and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1761 to 1762.

He came to Halifax with Edward Cornwallis in 1749 and moved to Annapolis around 1759, where he set up practice. It is recorded that, in 1752, Steele had several children over the age of sixteen. In 1761, he was named a justice of the peace for Annapolis County.[1]

References

Murdoch, Beamish (1866). A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie. Vol. II. Halifax: J. Barnes. p. 406.

Calnek, William Arthur (1897). History of the County of Annapolis: Including Old Port Royal and Acadia : with Memoirs of Its Representatives in the Provincial Parliament, and Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Early English Settlers and Their Families. Toronto: William Briggs.

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