James Aubrey Simmons (July 8, 1897 – November 30, 1979) was a Canadian politician, notary and magistrate.
[2] Born in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Simmons would go on to sit many times in the House of Commons of Canada representing the Yukon Territory.
His rival, Arthur Massey Berry, an Independent, lost by over 1,000 votes.
By 1953, at the next federal election, the riding of Yukon-Mackenzie River was abolished and transformed again into the Yukon electoral district.
In parliament, Simmons sponsored a bill for the creation of an Alaska-Yukon pipeline.