Joseph Keeler

Joseph Keeler (May 24, 1824 – January 21, 1881) was an Ontario businessman and political figure.

He represented Northumberland East in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal-Conservative member from 1867 to 1874 and from 1879 to 1881.

Keeler was a grain and lumber merchant and also owned a wharf, warehouses and a flour mill at Colborne.

[2] Keeler operated a printing business which produced one of the first newspapers in the region, the Colborne Transcript.

[5] His father, Joseph Abbott Keeler, was credited with being the founder of Colborne[3] and his grandfather, a United Empire Loyalist from Vermont also named Joseph Keeler, was one of the first settlers in the township.