(died 8 March 1908, aged 82), clergyman. (Rev. John S. Burnet) Born at Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, son of Rev. William Burnet. John Smith Burnet, who studied at the University of Edinburgh, came to Canada from Scotland in 1863. He served as assistant to the Rev. Hugh Urquhart, St. John’s Church, Cornwall, 1866-1868. Afterwards, he was minister of St. Andrew’s Church, Martintown, from 1868 to 1896, in a pastorate remembered as highly successful and for its unusual length. He retired for reasons of ill health in 1896 and thereafter lived in Cornwall except for a year in Scotland. He died in Cornwall.
Cornwall Freeholder 13 March 1908 * MacMillan, Kirk: index * Rhodes Grant, i, 59, iii * Jean McCuaig MacIntosh, ‘Our Heritage’: a History of Old St. Andrew’s the Stone Church at Martintown (1984)