Edward Joseph Williams (January 28, 1918 – August 18, 2021) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
He served in various units of the Canadian army between 1939 and 1945; he started as a private in the 4th Canadian Field Ambulance and later obtained his commission at RMC Sandhurst with the Royal Armoured Corps.
[2] He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a progressive conservative from 1958 to 1959.
He did not seek re-election in 1959, but later went on to become President of the Churchill Chamber of commerce and obtained brief fame by appearing on the CBC National News suggesting that Churchill would be much better off as part of the federally governed Northwest Territories (NWT).
Williams subsequently became Director of Industrial Development for the District of Mackenzie of the NWT and then worked with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs until his retirement in 1983.