He was secretary-treasurer for the South Wentworth Agricultural Society and served ten years as superintendent of the Great Central Fair in Hamilton. He was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1896 by-election held after Nicholas Awrey resigned his seat. He was also one of the five Johns of the Dominion Power and Transmission Company John Morison Gibson was another. They owned the Hamilton Street Rail-way; they later sold out to hydro about 1930. John Dickenson, his brother Edward and his father, Edward Senior, built all the schools in Glanford, except No. 5, also the schools in Binbrook, Ancaster, Seneca, Oneida and West Flamborough. His Brickyard was in Glanford at the north east corner of Twenty and No. 6 Highway. John was also on the board of directors of the Bank of Hamilton. References

External links
The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897 JA Gemmill

Prominent men of Canada : a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life ..., GM Adam (1892)

Category:1847 births
Category:1932 deaths
Category:English emigrants to Canada
Category:Mayors of places in Ontario
Category:Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Category:Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario
He was secretary-treasurer for the South Wentworth Agricultural Society and served ten years as superintendent of the Great Central Fair in Hamilton. He was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1896 by-election held after Nicholas Awrey resigned his seat. He was also one of the five Johns of the Dominion Power and Transmission Company John Morison Gibson was another. They owned the Hamilton Street Rail-way; they later sold out to hydro about 1930. John Dickenson, his brother Edward and his father, Edward Senior, built all the schools in Glanford, except No. 5, also the schools in Binbrook, Ancaster, Seneca, Oneida and West Flamborough. His Brickyard was in Glanford at the north east corner of Twenty and No. 6 Highway. John was also on the board of directors of the Bank of Hamilton. References

External links
The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897 JA Gemmill

Prominent men of Canada: a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life ..., GM Adam (1892)

Category:1847 births
Category:1932 deaths
Category: Hawaiian emigrants to Canada
Category: Mayors of places in Ontario
Category: Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Category: Politicians from Hamilton, Ontario