Harold Timmins

Harold Aberdeen Watson Timmins (April 14, 1895 – July 29, 1966) was a Canadian politician and jurist.

Timmins was born in Alliston, Ontario, the son of James S. Timmins and Charlotte Amelia Watson, and raised in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale where he attended Parkdale Collegiate Institute before studying at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1920. Timmins was named a King's Counsel in 1942. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative MP and sat in the House of Commons of Canada until his defeat in the 1949 federal election by John Hunter of the Liberals in what was considered an upset victory as Parkdale had been a safe Tory seat since its creation in the 1917 federal election.

During his time in the House of Commons, Timmins was an advocate for building housing for veteran's and for the creation of a national health plan.

In 1958, Timmins was appointed as a judge on the County Court of York. Prior to that he'd been a magistrate-at-large in Ontario and an official arbitrator for Toronto for three years.