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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name             = John Goodall Snetsinger
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| image            = John Goodall Snetsinger.jpg
| constituency_MP  = [[Cornwall and Stormont]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Darby Bergin]]
| successor        = [[Robert Abercrombie Pringle]]
| term_start       = 1896
| term_end         = 1900

| office2          = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] for [[Cornwall (provincial electoral district)|Cornwall]]
| predecessor2     = [[John Sandfield Macdonald]]
| successor2       = [[Alexander Fraser McIntyre]]
| term_start2      = 1871
| term_end2        = 1875

| predecessor3     = [[Alexander Fraser McIntyre]]
| successor3       = [[William Mack (Ontario politician)|William Mack]]
| term_start3      = 1875
| term_end3        = 1879

| birth_date       = {{birth date|1833|10|13}}
| birth_place      = Cornwall Township, Upper Canada
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1909|12|9|1833|10|13}}
| death_place      = New York City, New York
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| spouse           = 
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| otherparty       = [[Ontario Liberal Party]]
| relations        = 
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'''John Goodall Snetsinger''' (October 13, 1833 &ndash; December 9, 1909) was an [[Ontario]] merchant and political figure. He represented [[Cornwall (provincial electoral district)|Cornwall]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] from 1872 to 1879 and [[Cornwall and Stormont]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] from 1896 to 1900.

He was born in [[Cornwall, Ontario|Cornwall Township]] in [[Upper Canada]] in 1833. He owned a [[gristmill]] and general store in the town of [[Moulinette, Ontario|Moulinette]]. Snetsinger served as reeve for the township in 1869. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in an 1872 by-election and reelected in 1875. In 1896, he was elected to the federal parliament. He successfully lobbied the federal government for a small railway station on the [[Grand Trunk Railway]] line in Moulinette. He died in New York City in 1909 while visiting.

He was the maternal grandfather and a significant presence in the upbringing of [[travel literature|travel writer]] [[M. Wylie Blanchet]].<ref name="Converse">{{cite book
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The town of Moulinette was permanently flooded during the building of the [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Moulinette |publisher=The Lost Villages Historical Society |url=http://lostvillages.ca/history/the-lost-villages/moulinette/ |access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==
{{1872 Ontario provincial by-elections/Cornwall}}
{{1875 Ontario general election/Cornwall}}
{{1875 Ontario provincial by-elections/Cornwall}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=8932}}
*{{Ontario MPP biography|id=john-goodall-snetsinger}}
*[http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4844 ''Heritage Highlights of Cornwall Township'', Historical Society of Cornwall Township (1984)]

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[[Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs]]
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[[Category:19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]


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