Colonel John Everett Lyle Streight MC (August 15, 1880 – June 2, 1955) was a Canadian lumber merchant, military officer and politician.
[1] Streight's was born and kept a home in Islington, Ontario (now part of Toronto) throughout his life.
[1][2] In the 1930s he served as aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada and, in 1932, served as aide-de-camp to King George V.[1][2] Streight first ran for federal office in the 1921 federal election as a Liberal but was defeated in his York West by Henry Lumley Drayton.
In 1937, he was a member of the Canadian contingent attending the coronation of King George VI.
[3] That year, he turned down an invitation from Adolf Hitler to speak to German youth on the need to establish an equivalent to the Canadian Legion.