Education
He studied arts and theology at Saint John"s College, where he studied for the ministry and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1932.
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Kenneth Bolton
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Other than his two years as Master in Public Policy, he was an Anglican priest and archdeacon serving in Ontario and British Columbia. Born in Birmingham, England, Bolton immigrated to Canada and settled in Winnipeg in 1925. Bolton was active in social justice causes with groups such as Oxfam and Amnesty International.
He was elected to the legislature in a 1969 by-election.
His campaign was a struggle which was complicated because of traffic accident three month before the by-election in which he broke several bones. His victory was credited to campaigning on the issue of Medicare at a time when the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party government of John Robarts was reluctant to join the plan.
His victory is credited with successfully pressuring the government to agree to bring the province into the plan. As an Master in Public Policy he was correctional services critic.
He was defeated in the 1971 general election by Robert G. Eaton after serving in office for two years.
He finished fourth. In 1971, he became a missionary in the Windward Islands in the West Indies. He also served for a short time in 1975 as acting secretary of the Primate"s World Relief and Development Fund.
He died of heart failure during a flight from London, Ontario to Vancouver, British Columbia.
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He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1969 to 1971 representing the riding of Middlesex South.
