Jim Bagnall

{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = James D. Bagnall | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|2|15}} | birth_place = Bedeque, Prince Edward Island | spouse = Eileen Bagnall | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for<br/>Montague-Kilmuir | term_start = November 27, 1996 | term_end = October 18, 2011 | predecessor = ''First Member'' | successor = Allen Roach | office1 = Interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island | term_start1 = May 26, 2010 | term_end1 = October 2, 2010 | predecessor1 = Olive Crane <small>(interim)</small> | successor1 = Olive Crane | party = | occupation = Store Manager }}

'''James (Jim) Douglas Bagnall''' (born 15 February 1949<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.assembly.pe.ca/sites/www.assembly.pe.ca/files/Historical%20MLA%20Bios/B-2.pdf |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island |title=Minding the House: a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume II), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid, Eds.) |accessdate=2021-04-04}}</ref>) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 1996 provincial election. Bagnall is married to Eileen (Craig) Bagnall. They have four kids, Douglas, Craig, Tara and Tanya. He represented the electoral district of Montague-Kilmuir as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In June 2010, he was named interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives after Olive Crane resigned to run for the party's permanent leadership in the October 2010 convention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=342894&sc=98|title=Bagnall named interim leader|work=The Guardian|date=June 9, 2010|accessdate=2015-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729081656/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=342894&sc=98|archive-date=July 29, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A former retail store owner, Bagnall served on the town council for Montague from 1990 to 1996.<ref>O'Handley, K ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 2000'' {{ISBN|0-7876-3560-X}}</ref> He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

==References== * {{cite web|url=http://www.gov.pe.ca/phone/makebio.php3?number=82042 |title=Bagnall, Jim |work=Telephone Directory |publisher=Government of Prince Edward Island |accessdate=2009-06-13}} {{reflist}}

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