John "Jack" Howard Sissons[1] (July 14, 1892 – November 11, 1969) was a Canadian barrister, author, judge and federal politician.
[2] Sissons was born in Orillia, Ontario and, at the age of four, contracted polio, which injured his leg and he walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
[4] Having left Orillia to teach in both Ontario and Alberta Sissons then moved to Kingston to attend Queen's University.
Sissons was defeated in the 1945 Canadian federal election by Social Credit leader Solon Earl Low.
One intriguing move he made was to hire an Inuit carver to make soapstone carvings of prominent murder cases he presided over throughout the Far North; he was inspired to do this when he ruled in the favour of traditional justice in the case of a young boy, and the boy presented him with a soapstone carving after the trial.