Kennedy Francis Burns
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The Hon. Kennedy Francis Burns |
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| Senator for New Brunswick, New Brunswick | |
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In office March 21, 1893 – June 23, 1895 |
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| Appointed by | John Sparrow David Thompson |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Gloucester |
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In office 1882–1893 |
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| Preceded by | Timothy Anglin |
| Succeeded by | Théotime Blanchard |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Gloucester | |
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In office 1874–1878 |
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January 8, 1842 Thomastown, Republic of Ireland |
| Died | June 23, 1895 (aged 53) Bathurst, New Brunswick |
| Political party | Liberal |
Kennedy Francis Burns (January 8, 1842 – June 23, 1895) was a Canadian businessman and politician of the Liberal party.
Born a Roman Catholic in Thomastown, Republic of Ireland, he emigrated to British North America. He worked as a clerk for a merchant at Chatham, New Brunswick and was sent by the same employer to Bathurst, New Brunswick in 1861. There he bought his employer's store in 1863.
On 26 September 1865, Burns married Harriet McKenna.
After he acquired property at a place later known as Burnsville on the Caraquet River, including a hydraulically-powered sawmill, he entered the lumber trade as K.F. Burns and Company. With his brother-in-law Samuel Adams he formed in 1878 the Burns, Adams and Company and built in East Bathurst a steam-powered sawmill, which entered production in 1880. Adams left the company in 1880, and it reverted to its former name. Initially, the company exported its Burnsville lumber from Caraquet to Britain, and then, after the 1885 opening of the Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway, all lumber was shipped from Bathurst. Burns was the instigator of the C&GS Railway, later serving as its president.
Around 1890, Burns formed the St. Lawrence Lumber Company (SLLC), of which he was President. This company owned at Bersimis, Quebec a sawmill; and amalgamated the mills at Burnsville and Bathurst. It was financed chiefly by Novelli and Co., and when the London financiers went bankrupt in 1894, the SLLC foundered.
Burns died of pneumonia at the age of 53 in Bathurst on 23 June 1895. He left four daughters.
Burns was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1874 for Gloucester County, serving until 1878. As a Roman Catholic, he opposed the Common Schools Act of 1871 and formed a legal defence fund for the people who had been charged in the wake of the riots and manslaughter at Caraquet over the issue.
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