Nicholas Asmussen was a German-born Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 building contractor and political figure. He represented Waterloo North

Waterloo North

Waterloo North was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1919 to 1923 as an Independent Liberal and from 1934 to 1937 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Flensburg

Flensburg

Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig...

, Germany

Germany

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, the son of John and Catherina Asmussen, and came to Canada in 1878 with his family. He was educated in Berlin (later Kitchener

Kitchener, Ontario

The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

). In 1908, he married Willisa Kesselring. Asmussen was mayor of Kitchener from 1925 to 1926.

External links

• A History of Kitchener, Ontario, WV Uttley (1937)