Eric Hammill

{{Short description|Canadian politician and farmer (1932–2023)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image =  | image_size = 150px | name = Eric Hammill | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|8|25}} | birth_place = Lower Freetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|9|28|1932|8|25}} | death_place = Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada | office1 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for<br/>Borden-Kinkora | term_start1 = November 18, 1996 | term_end1 = September 29, 2003 | predecessor1 = ''Riding Established'' | successor1 = Fred McCardle | party = Progressive Conservative | occupation = }}

'''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.

==Life and career== J. Eric Hammill was born in Lower Freetown, Prince Edward Island on August 25, 1932.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.assembly.pe.ca/sites/www.assembly.pe.ca/files/Historical%20MLA%20Bios/H-2.pdf |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |title=Minding the House: a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid, Eds.) |accessdate=2021-04-05}}</ref> He purchased the family farm in 1954 and, in 1955, married Helen McIsaac.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nsac.ca/halloffame/citations/hammill_eric.htm |title=Entry from the Atlantic Agricultural Hall of Fame |access-date=2009-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706191516/http://nsac.ca/halloffame/citations/hammill_eric.htm |archive-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.ocean100.com/2023/09/29/former-mla-eric-hammill-passes-away-at-age-91/ Former MLA Eric Hammill passes away at age 91]</ref>

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