{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name=Howard Russell MacEwan | image=Russell MacEwan.png | image_size= | caption=Official 1968 portrait | birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1925|5|8}} | birth_place=Westville, Nova Scotia | death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2008|6|29|1925|5|8}} | death_place=New Glasgow, Nova Scotia | spouse=Joan MacDonald (predeceased)<br>Betty MacNeil | parliament = Canadian | riding =Central Nova | term_start=25 June 1968 | term_end=14 January 1971 | predecessor= | successor= | parliament2 = Canadian | riding2 = Pictou | term_start2=10 June 1957 | term_end2=24 June 1968 | predecessor2= | successor2= | profession=Barrister and solicitor | party=Progressive Conservative | footnotes= | website= }}
'''Howard Russell MacEwan''' (8 May 1925 – 29 June 2008) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Westville, Nova Scotia and became a barrister and solicitor by career.
He was first elected at the Pictou riding in the 1957 general election, then re-elected there in the 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1965. With riding boundary changes, MacEwan won re-election at Central Nova riding in the 1968 federal election. He left federal politics in January 1971, during his term in the 28th Canadian Parliament, to become a Nova Scotia provincial judge at Amherst. From 1977 to 1991, he was based in New Glasgow.<ref name=NGNEWS />
Russell MacEwan died at Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on 29 June 2008.<ref name=NGNEWS>{{cite news | url=http://www.ngnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=148748&sc=55 | publisher=The News (Pictou County, Nova Scotia) | date=1 July 2008 | title=Obituaries: Judge H. Russell MacEwan }}{{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/former-mp-and-judge-macewan-dies-1.771981|title=Former MP and judge MacEwan dies|work=CBC News|date=2 July 2008}}</ref>
== Electoral history == {{1957 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1958 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1962 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1963 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1965 Canadian federal election/Pictou}} {{1968 Canadian federal election/Central Nova}}
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==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=12126}}
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