Renfrew North (provincial electoral district)

Renfrew North produced two prominent cabinet ministers, in office fifty years apart.

• Edward Arunah Dunlop, Conservative MPP over three different stints between 1903 and 1934, was a prominent member of the Toronto business community while he was not in public office. He was twice acclaimed to the seat (in 1911 and 1929) and was Provincial Treasurer in the Ferguson ministry and the Henry ministry. He was the second Provincial Treasurer from Renfrew, after Thomas McGarry of the Hearst ministry.

• Sean Conway, Liberal MPP from 1975 to 1999, was only twenty-four when he ended the Progressive Conservatives' three-decade run of the riding. Ten years later in 1985, he was one of the three Liberal negotiators that brokered the governing accord with the NDP that ended the Progressive Conservatives' four-decade run of the province, and was among the most powerful ministers in the Peterson ministry that follows.

The following only highlights selected direct family connections.

• Between Thomas Murray's first and second stint as the local Liberal MPP, his brother William represented the riding in the House of Commons for a year before being unseated in 1875. Thomas reclaimed that federal seat twice years later, in 1891 and in 1900. The brothers registered the mining claim for the Murray Mine which was in operation until the 1970s.
• Three generations of Dunlop served in the legislature. Father and son Arunah Dunlop and Edward Arunah Dunlop represented this riding over four separate periods between 1890 and 1934, while grandson Edward Arunah Dunlop Jr. represented a Toronto riding in the 1960s. Both Edward and Edward Jr. were appointed to the provincial cabinet, forty year apart.
• Sean Conway's grandfather Thomas Patrick Murray was the member for Renfrew South from 1929 and 1945.

Six of the earlier Renfrew North MPP died in office, an unusually high number.

• John Supple held the Renfrew seat in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada confederation and continued to serve in the new provincial legislature, but died in 1869 having only served two years in the first parliament.
• Arunah Dunlop was elected to the 7th parliament, died after only two years of service.
• Andrew Thomas White was elected to the 9th parliament, similarly died after two years of service.
• John W. Munro succeeded White and served out the remaining term of the 9th parliament, got re-elected to the 10th parliament but died two days after from blood poisoning, again only having served two years.
• Alexander Stuart was elected to the 16th parliament, survived long enough to completed the term and to get reelected to the 17th parliament, and died in 1928 without completing his second term.
• Dunlop's son Edward Arunah Dunlop twice entered the legislature mid-term succeeding dead incumbents, Munro in 1902 and Stuart in 1928, before succumbing himself on New Year's Day 1934 while the Provincial Treasurer.