John "Jack" Henry Scammell (July 11, 1894 – September 18, 1940) was an educator, journalist and political figure in Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

. He represented St. Barbe

St. Barbe (electoral district)

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 from 1919 to 1928 and Bonavista Centre from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

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He was born in Change Islands, the son of Arthur Scammell and Althea Jones, and was educated there, at Bishop Feild College

Bishop Feild College

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 and at the teacher's summer school in St. John's

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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. Scammell was principal of the Boys' Central Training School in St. John's and taught at Bishop Feild College. In 1916, he became private secretary to William Coaker

William Coaker

Sir William Ford Coaker was a Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co....

. He succeeded Coaker as president of the Fishermen's Protective Union

Fishermen's Protective Union

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 in 1926, serving in that position until 1936. In 1929, Scammell became the editor of the Fishermen's Advocate. He died of a stroke

Stroke

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 at a hospital in Bonavista

Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bonavista is a town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Unlike many Newfoundland coastal settlements, Bonavista was built on an open plain, not in a steep cove, and thus had room to expand to its current area of 31.5  square...

at the age of 46 and was buried in Change Islands.