Joel Reaman was a farmer, miller and political figure in the Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...

, Canada. He represented Wallace in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1888 to 1894 as a Conservative.

He was born in Woodbridge

Woodbridge, Ontario

Woodbridge is a large suburban community in the City of Vaughan, just north of Toronto in Southern Ontario. It was once an independent town before being amalgamated with nearby communities to form the city in 1971. Its traditional downtown core is the Woodbridge Ave...

, Canada West and educated there. He married Eliza J. Franks. Reaman was postmaster of Woodbridge for seven years and clerk in the division court for four years. In 1883, he moved to Yorkton

Yorkton, Saskatchewan

Yorkton is a city located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, near the Manitoba border. Founded and incorporated in 1882 by a group of settlers from Ontario, it has grown to 15,038 residents as of the 2006 census. The city is bordered by the Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244 and the Rural...

, where he opened a general store and hotel. Reaman was a postmaster for Yorkton and land agent for the York Farmers Colonization Company.