John (Johnnie) Williams

WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIOT, lobster fisher, boat builder, and boat designer; b. 5 September 1920 in Beach Point, son of Elliot L. Williams and Katie Jane MacLeod; m. 11 September 1940 Annie Giddings, and they had seven children, Olive, Kenneth, Ernest, Charles, Miriam, Lily, and Perry; Church of Christ; d. 4 June 1988 in Charlottetown. Williams, a Conservative, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1978 for 4th Kings. He was defeated in the general election of 1979. "Johnnie" Williams was educated in Beach Point. He had a varied career, which began as a general merchant in the 1940s. Williams enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, to work as a shipwright. He received the Voluntary Service Medal. Following the war, Williams returned to Beach Point and became a fisherman, carpenter, plasterer, and eventually a well-known boat builder, working at this last venture from the early 1950s until his death. He was a member of the board of directors of the Georgetown Shipyard. Williams was vice-president of the Murray Harbour Library and president of the Montague Regional High School Band Parents Association. John Williams died 4 June 1988 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.