1863: E.V. Bodwell, Dereham

E.V. Bodwell, Dereham

Ebenezer Vining Bodwell was born in Nissouri Township in Middlesex County, Upper Canada in 1927, and later moved to a farm in Dereham Township with his family. 

He served as Clerk and Treasurer for Dereham Township, later becoming a member of the Township Council, then Reeve and later Warden for Oxford County. 

From 1867 to 1874, he represented Oxford South in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Member. In 1875, Bodwell as appointed superintendent for the Welland Canal and served until 1879, when he was named government accountant for the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. In 1887, he moved to Vancouver, where he was appointed second president of the Vancouver Board of Trade. 

E.V. Bodwell passed away at Morley, Northwest Territories in 1889.