Burton Hill

Burton Hill
Member of Parliament for Charlotte
In office October 1935 – April 1945
Preceded by	Arthur D. Ganong
Succeeded by	A. Wesley Stuart
Personal details
Born	Burton Maxwell Hill (1883-06-21)21 June 1883 St. Stephen, New Brunswick
Died	7 January 1963(1963-01-07) (aged 79)
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Leah Violet Beveridge m. 20 June 1911
Profession	civil engineer

Burton Maxwell Hill (21 June 1883 – 7 January 1963) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and became a civil engineer by career.

Hill attended school in St. Stephen then the University of New Brunswick where he received a Bachelor of Science for engineering. From 1918 to 1925, he was the New Brunswick provincial Deputy Minister of Public Works. In 1925, Hill became a full provincial minister of Public Works under Premier Peter Veniot, but resigned later that year after the government was defeated in an election where Hill did not win a seat.

In 1929 and 1930, he was commissioner for the Saint John Harbour Board.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Charlotte riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. After completing his second term, the 19th Canadian Parliament, Hill did not seek further re-election and left federal office at the 1945 election.

Electoral history

1940 Canadian federal election: Charlotte
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Burton M. Hill	6,099	58.1	+6.6
	Conservative	Walter DeWolfe	4,391	41.9	+9.8
Total valid votes			10,490	100.0

1935 Canadian federal election: Charlotte
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Burton M. Hill	5,436	51.5	+9.3
	Conservative	Chauncey Randall Pollard	3,386	32.1	-25.7
	Reconstruction	Walter Quartermain	1,732	16.4	*
Total valid votes			10,554	100.0

External links

• Burton Hill – Parliament of Canada biography