Martin Burrell | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Yale—Cariboo | |
| In office October 26, 1908 – December 16, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Duncan Ross |
| Succeeded by | District abolished |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Yale | |
| In office December 17, 1917 – July 7, 1920 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | John Armstrong MacKelvie |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office October 16, 1911 – October 11, 1917 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Borden |
| Preceded by | Sydney Arthur Fisher |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Crerar |
| Secretary of State for Canada | |
| In office October 12, 1917 – December 30, 1919 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Borden |
| Preceded by | Arthur Meighen |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Sifton |
| Minister of Mines | |
| In office October 12, 1917 – December 30, 1919 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Borden |
| Preceded by | Arthur Meighen |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Meighen |
| Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue | |
| In office December 31, 1919 – July 7, 1920 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Borden |
| Preceded by | John Dowsley Reid (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Rupert Wilson Wigmore |
| Parliamentary Librarian | |
| In office 1920–1938 | |
| Preceded by | Martin Joseph Griffin |
| Succeeded by | Francis Aubrey Hardy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 19, 1858 Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England |
| Died | March 20, 1938 (aged 79) |
| Political party | Conservative |
Martin Burrell PC (October 19, 1858 – March 20, 1938) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Burrell emigrated to Canada as a young man, where he eventually became a fruit grower on a farm about two miles east of Grand Forks, British Columbia. His farm was the largest apple tree nursery in the province.
He was elected mayor of Grand Forks, British Columbia in 1903. He first ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of Canada as the Conservative candidate in the 1904 federal election for the constituency of Yale—Cariboo. He was elected in the 1908 federal election and re-elected in 1911. In 1917 he was re-elected as a Unionist.
Burrell served as the Minister of Agriculture in the Borden government from 1911 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1919, as Secretary of State of Canada and Minister of Mines. From 1919 to 1920, he was the Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue. He also helped secure the departure of the Komagata Maru, against those mistreating the passengers and prolonging the departure date.[citation needed]
A fire damaged the Parliament Buildings in 1917, and Burrell was badly injured in it. From that time he filled the position of librarian for the Library of Parliament. After leaving politics, he remained in Ottawa and kept the position of Parliamentary Librarian until his death in 1938. He is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.
Burrell Creek near Grand Forks, British Columbia, is named in his honour.