Prowse Gorrill Chappell

CHAPPELL, PROWSE GORRILL. farmer; b. 30 September 1928 in Kitchener, Ontario, son of Alexander Chappell and Pearl Gorrill of Summerside; m. 25 April 1951 Ethelbert Dawson, and they had four children, Ronald, Wayne, Deborah, and Cindy; United Baptist. Chappell, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1978 for 4th Prince. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1979, 1982, and 1986. He was defeated in the federal election of 1988 in Egmont. On 3 May 1979, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Forestry and, on 28 October 1982, Chappell was named Minister of Agriculture. He was a member of Treasury Board and was responsible for the Prince Edward Island Land Development Corporation and the Grain Elevator Corporation. He was proud of the fact that the School Milk Program was introduced while he was Minister of Agriculture. Chappell chaired the Conservative caucus and acted as Opposition spokesperson on agriculture. Chappell attended Summerside High School. In 1952 he took over his father's farm in Sherbrooke and raised beef and dairy cattle. He was a president of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture and a provincial director of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. He was a member of the Summerside Regional Planning Board, a chair of the Sherbrooke Community Improvement Committee, and a Sherbrooke School Trustee. Bertie Chappell is the daughter of Rex Dawson of Albany.