Honorary Colonel Hon. John Gordon Leefe ECNS DCL (born March 21, 1942) is an author, former educator and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Queens in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1978 to 1999 as a Progressive Conservative member. He was also mayor of Region of Queens Municipality 2000-2012.He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of James G. Leefe CD and Helen G. Sancton, and was educated at University of King's College (BA), the University of New Brunswick (BEd) and Dalhousie University (MA). Leefe taught school in Saint John, Halifax and Liverpool, NS where he was Head of the Social Studies Department and later Assistant Director of Curriculum with the Queens District School Board. Wikipedia