Lowell S. Johnston

JOHNSTON, LOWELL STERLING, farmer, fisher, carpenter, salesperson, and merchant; b. 3 July 1926 in Murray Harbour North, son of Frederick George Johnston of Peters Road and Elsie Mayburne MacKinnon of Sturgeon; m. 3 January 1948 Mary Eileen Vanlderstine, and they had tour children, Paulette Jean, Frederick Edgar, Judith Alma, and Roger Lowell; Presbyterian. Johnston, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1978 for 5th Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1979 and 1982. He was defeated in the general election of 1974. Johnston received his education at the Murray Harbour North Community School. In the early 1950s, and for most of the 1960s, he fished and was co-owner of a lobster-packing operation. He then travelled throughout the province selling farm equipment. Johnston also operated a cattle and grain operation on the family farm in his home community, and was a carpenter. In 1965 he purchased a small country store, which he operated with his wife and children, and two years later he opened Johnston's Centennial Tent and Trailer park. Johnston was a member of the Southern Kings Tourist Association and an elected member of the Southern Kings Regional Advisory Board. He was chair of the property committee of the Murray Harbour North Presbyterian Church and a member of the board of managers for the church and the cemetery committees. Lowell Johnston was a board member of the Hillsborough Home for Special Care. Eileen Johnston is the daughter of Edgar and Alma Vanlderstine.