John Edwin Hunter (1856-1919) was a Methodist Evangelist. He was born in Rochester, Upper Canada. Raised in a Methodist family, Hunter was converted in 1871 under Methodist preaching at Kirby, Ont. In 1875 he was received as an exhorter and spent the next three years on the Woodslee and Thamesville circuits. From 1878-1880 he studied at Victoria College in Cobourg. After serving at Ancaster and then at Waterdown for two years, he was ordained in 1882. That same year he married his wife, Jennie Jones. Next he volunteered for service in western Canada and was appointed to Dominion City, Manitoba. By 1884 Hunter turned to evangelism. He collaborated with Hugh Thomas Crossley in evangelist campaigns until 1909 when he was incapacitated by Parkinson's disease. During their time Crossley & Hunter were considered Canada's leading evangelists and campaigned all over the country, into the United States and Bermuda.