Gordon Janes

{{Short description|Canadian accountant and politician}}

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Gordon Winston Janes (October 12, 1918 – 1985) was an accountant, educator, business manager and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Fogo in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/324 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |page=97 |title=Janes, Gordon Winston}}

The son of Samuel Janes and Violet Noble, he was born in Pool's Island and was educated there and in St. John's. He taught for a short time after completing his education. Janes served in a Newfoundland field artillery unit during World War II and was wounded and discharged in 1944. After the war, he worked as a field worker in the cooperative movement and later formed a partnership with A. B. Morgan in public accounting and auditing. In 1942, Janes married Margaret Maria Smith; the couple had two children.{{cite book |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_tools/id/17990 |title=Newfoundland Who's Who |year=1952 |page=52}}

He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949. After leaving politics in 1956, Janes worked as a manager for Newfoundland Fiberply Ltd. He left the company in 1960 and managed a nightclub in St. John's for two years. Janes then built a motel, which he operated until it was destroyed in a fire in 1973. Due to poor health, Janes retired from business soon afterwards.