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By-elections To The 30th Canadian Parliament
By-elections to the 30th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 1974 Canadian federal election, 1974 federal election and the 1979 Canadian federal election, 1979 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 30th Canadian Parliament, though their number did decrease from by-elections. 27 seats became vacant during the life of the Parliament. 25 of these vacancies were filled through by-elections, and 2 seats remained vacant when the 1979 federal election was called. See also *List of federal by-elections in Canada Sources Parliament of Canada–Elected in By-Elections {{Canada elections 1978 elections in Canada 1977 elections in Canada 1976 elections in Canada 1975 elections in Canada Federal by-elections in Canada, 30th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons Of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as members of Parliament (MPs). There have been 338 MPs since the most recent electoral district redistribution for the 2015 federal election, which saw the addition of 30 seats. Members are elected by simple plurality ("first-past-the-post" system) in each of the country's electoral districts, which are colloquially known as ''ridings''. MPs may hold office until Parliament is dissolved and serve for constitutionally limited terms of up to five years after an election. Historically, however, terms have ended before their expiry and the sitting government has typically dissolved parliament within four years of an election according to a long-standing convention. In any case, an ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Marshall (Canadian Politician)
Jack Marshall (November 26, 1919 – August 17, 2004) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Humber—St. George's—St. Barbe in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1978 and served in the Senate of Canada from 1978 to 1994. History Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, he was the only officer cadet in the Canadian Army who went ashore at the start of the Battle of Normandy with the 3rd Canadian Division. He served in the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment and would end the war with the rank of captain. After the war he moved to Corner Brook, Newfoundland where he served with Royal Newfoundland Regiment becoming Colonel and commanding officer for the whole province. After retiring from the military, Marshall managed a drug store in Corner Brook before being elected to parliament in the 1968 federal election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1978 by Prime Minister Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean O'Sullivan (priest)
Sean Patrick Paul O'Sullivan, CM (January 1, 1952 – March 9, 1989) was a Canadian politician who left politics and became a Roman Catholic priest. Born in 1952 in Hamilton, Ontario, O'Sullivan showed an interest in politics at a young age: when he was 11 years old he worked for Ellen Fairclough in her election campaign and met John Diefenbaker for the first time. He was educated at Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School and Brock University in St. Catharines. When he was just 15 years old he was named Western Ontario representative of the Youth for Diefenbaker movement. This movement was formed in Ottawa to engage support of Canada's young conservatives for John Diefenbaker at the leadership convention. In 1970, at age 18, he was chosen as president of the Young Progressive Conservatives of Canada. In 1971, Diefenbaker appointed O'Sullivan as his executive assistant, and in the 1972 election, the O'Sullivan was elected the Progressive Conservative MP for the riding o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Parker (Canadian Politician)
Rob Parker (January 18, 1943 – March 17, 2016) was a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a broadcaster, businessman and journalist by career. He was elected to the 30th Canadian Parliament at the Eglinton (electoral district), Eglinton riding in a by-election on 16 October 1978. In the 1979 Canadian federal election, 1979 election, Parker was defeated at the Eglinton—Lawrence riding by Roland de Corneille of the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal party. He made another unsuccessful attempt to unseat de Corneille there in the 1980 Canadian federal election, 1980 election. In 2007, Parker was living in the Lake Chapala region of Mexico, active with the Canadian expatriate community there.- Electoral record References External links * 1943 births 2016 deaths Canadian journalists Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Sharp
Mitchell William Sharp (May 11, 1911 – March 19, 2004) was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He did, however, serve in both private and public sectors during his long career. Background Sharp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1934 and completed post-graduate work at that university and then at the London School of Economics. During this time, he worked as a writer focusing on the grain trade. Sharp started his long career in public service in 1947 when he was offered the job as the director of the Department of Finance's Economic Policy Division. From 1951 to 1957, Sharp served as the Associate Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce. During his tenure, he was responsible for international trade relations. Soon after, Sharp served a short term as the Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce. Politics In 1963, Mitchell Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eglinton (electoral District)
Eglinton was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1979. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Toronto Northeast riding. It initially consisted of Ward Nine of the city of Toronto. In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto bounded as follows: from the intersection of the Canadian National Railway line and Yonge Street, north along Yonge Street, west along Cameron Avenue, north along Easton Street, west along Sheppard Avenue West, south along Bathurst Street, southwest along Highway 401, south along the Spadina Expressway, Beechmount Avenue and Benner Avenue, east along Briar Hill Avenue, south along Castlewood Road, east along Eglinton Avenue, south along Elmsthorpe Avenue, and southeast along the C.N.R. line to Yonge Street. The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Eglinton—Lawrence, St. Paul's and Willowdale ridings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Rae
Robert Keith Rae (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal (Broadview, Broadview-Greenwood, Toronto Centre) and provincial (York South) parliaments. Rae was a New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament from 1978 to 1982. He then moved to provincial politics, serving as leader of the Ontario NDP from February 7, 1982, to June 22, 1996. After leading his party to victory in the 1990 provincial election he served as the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1, 1990, to June 26, 1995, and was the first person to have led a provincial NDP government in the province of Ontario. While in office, he brought forward a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilbert (Canadian Politician)
John Gilbert (September 12, 1921 – August 7, 2006) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and jurist. Gilbert was born in Toronto and grew up in a poor working-class family which he helped support during the Great Depression by selling newspapers at the corner of Yonge and Bloor for two cents eachJOHN GILBERT, LAWYER AND POLITICIAN: 1921-2006 by Allison Lawlor (September 13, 2006) Retrieved on 2007-02-10 and by gathering coal that had fallen off horse-drawn coal wagons in order to help heat his family's home. The home was eventually lost when the bank foreclosed on its mortgage. He was the youngest of five children, his parents were poor Irish Protestants who had immigrated to Canada. He left school early to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadview (electoral District) , formerly Brink's Home Security
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Broadview can refer to: Places Australia *Broadview, South Australia Canada *Broadview (electoral district), in Ontario *Broadview (TTC), a Toronto subway station *Broadview Avenue, a street in Toronto * Broadview, Saskatchewan United States *Broadview, Illinois *Broadview, Indiana *Broadview, Montana *Broadview, Cibola County, New Mexico *Broadview, Curry County, New Mexico *Broadview, Seattle, Washington **Broadview Creek in Seattle *Broadview Heights, Ohio *Broadview Park, Florida *Broadview-Pompano Park, Florida Other uses * ''Broadview'' (magazine), formerly the ''United Church Observer'' *Broadview Press, Canadian academic publisher *Broadview Security ADT Inc., formerly The ADT Corporation, is an American company that provides residential, small and large business electronic security, fire protection, and other related alarm monitoring services throughout the United States. The corporate hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Edward Crosby
Howard Edward Crosby (26 November 1933 – 12 December 2003) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Crosby served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and became a lawyer and barrister by career. He represented the Nova Scotia riding of Halifax—East Hants, subsequently Halifax West since a by-election win there on 16 October 1978. He was re-elected in the 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1988 federal elections. He served in the latter part of the 30th Canadian Parliament and for four successive full terms from the 31st through 34th Canadian Parliaments. He left national politics in 1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ... and did not campaign in that year's federal election. Electoral record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McCleave
Robert Jardine McCleave (19 December 1922 – 3 September 2004) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and became a journalist, judge and lawyer by career. He was also an editor of the ''Halifax Chronicle-Herald'' and became a news director at radio station CJCH. McCleave attended Dalhousie University, where he graduated in law studies. He was first elected at the Halifax riding in the 1957 general election. Except for a defeat at that riding in the 1963 federal election, he was re-elected to Parliament until the 1974 federal election. The Halifax riding was shared by two Members of Parliament until 1967. McCleave was joined by fellow Progressive Conservative member Edmund L. Morris from 1957 to 1963, then by Michael Forrestall, another Progressive Conservative, from 1965 to 1968. The Halifax riding was redefined in 1967 so that it elected only a single Member of Parliament, therefore McCleave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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