John Gunion Rutherford (1857-1923)

Veterinarian, MLA (1892-1895), MP (1896-1900).

Born at Mountain Cross, Newlands Parish, Peebles-shire, Scotland on 25 December 1857, son of Robert Rutherford, he attended school at Glasgow (Scotland), Ontario Agricultural College (Guelph) and Ontario Veterinary College (Toronto). He became a veterinary surgeon at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. He served as a Veterinary Officer with the North West Field Force in 1885, and Veterinary Inspector of Manitoba from 1887 to 1892. He was Chief Veterinary Inspector with the Canada Department of Agriculture (1902 to 1904), Veterinary Director General (1904 to 1912), Livestock Commissioner (1906 to 1912), and Superintendent of Agriculture and Animal Industry, Department of Natural Resources, CPR at Calgary (1912 to 1918). He was editor of the North West Farmer from 1890 to 1894, and the Manitoba Liberal from 1896 to 1900.

He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature for Lakeside in 1892, re-elected in 1896 but resigned later that year to stand as a candidate for Macdonald in the federal general election. He was defeated but was elected at a by-election in April 1897, defeated in 1900. He was commissioner for the Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada from 1918 to 1923. He died on 24 July 1923 at Ottawa.

More information:

John Gunion Rutherford - A Famous Manitoba Veterinarian by David Spector
Manitoba Pageant,Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 1978

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Profile revised: 29 January 2010

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