John Barr was an Ontario

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-based Canadian

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 physician and political figure. He represented Dufferin

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1875 to 1879, from 1890 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1904 and in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1904 to 1909 as a Conservative

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 member. From 1890 to 1894, he was a member of the provincial Conservative Equal Rights Party.

He was born near Elizabethtown (later Brockville

Brockville, Ontario

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) in Canada West in 1843, the son of Irish

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 immigrants. He graduated as an M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

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 from Victoria University

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 in 1866. Barr served as an associated coroner for Grey County

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. He was Deputy Master in the South Grey County Orange Lodge. Barr first set up practice in Horning's Mills but later moved to Shelburne

Shelburne, Ontario

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. In 1880, he married Ermina E. Palmer. After being reelected in 1879, he was unseated after an appeal. He was later reelected several times to the provincial and federal assemblies. He died in office in 1909.