Eric Hammill | |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1932 |
Birth Place: | Lower Freetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
Death Place: | Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for Borden-Kinkora |
Term Start1: | November 18, 1996 |
Term End1: | September 29, 2003 |
Predecessor1: | Riding Established |
Successor1: | Fred McCardle |
J. Eric Hammill (August 25, 1932 – September 28, 2023) was a Canadian farmer and politician from Prince Edward Island. He represented Borden-Kinkora in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2003 as a Progressive Conservative.
J. Eric Hammill was born in Lower Freetown, Prince Edward Island on August 25, 1932.[1] He purchased the family farm in 1954 and, in 1955, married Helen McIsaac.[2] Hammill was president of the Kinkora Dairy Cooperative, Atlantic representative on the National Farm Products Marketing Council for nine years and Secretary-Manager for the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture for twelve years. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and Minister responsible for the P.E.I. Grain Elevators Corporation. Hammill lived in Kinkora. He died in Summerside on September 28, 2023, at the age of 91.[3]