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Halton (provincial Electoral District)
Halton was a provincial electoral district in Central Ontario, Canada. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. History Until 1967, the electoral district was contiguous with the County of Halton. Division (1967-1999) The territory comprising Halton was redistributed on several occasions between 1967 and 1999: :* The ''Representation Act, 1966'' divided the County into Halton East (consisting of Georgetown, Milton, Oakville and the southern part of Esquesing Township) and Halton West (consisting of Acton, Burlington, Nassagaweya Township and the northern part of Esquesing). :* The ''Representation Act, 1975'' divided the new Regional Municipality of Halton into Burlington South, Halton-Burlington (consisting of Halton Hills, Milton and the northern part of Burlington) and Oakville. :* The ''Representation Act, 1986'' divided the Region into Burlington South, Halton Centre (consisting of the northern parts of Burlington and Oakville and a southern part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Municipality Of Halton
The Regional Municipality of Halton, or Halton Region, is a regional municipality in Ontario, Canada, located in the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario. It comprises the city of Burlington, Ontario, Burlington and the towns of Oakville, Ontario, Oakville, Milton, Ontario, Milton, and Halton Hills. Policing in the Region is provided by the Halton Regional Police Service. The regional council's headquarters are located in Oakville. Burlington and Oakville are largely urban and suburban, while the towns of Milton and Halton Hills are more rural. Halton is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), although it is the only regional municipality in the GTA that is not situated directly adjacent to Toronto’s city proper. However, the region is split between the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton. Burlington is part of the Hamilton CMA, while the rest of the region is part of the Toronto CMA. Halton experienced a growth rate of 17.1% between 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakville North—Burlington (provincial Electoral District)
Oakville North—Burlington (french: Oakville-Nord—Burlington) is a federal electoral district in Halton Region, Ontario. History Oakville North—Burlington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015. The riding was created out of part of the electoral district of Halton. 2015 federal election Conservative On June 7, 2015, at the Burlington Convention Centre, Conservative members of the Oakville North—Burlington Electoral District Association nominated Effie Triantafilopoulos as their official candidate for the October 19, 2015 federal election. Green Party Adnan Shahbaz is an educator working in the Curriculum Support Services division of a local school board as an Instructional Coach. He has worked as a classroom teacher, a behavioral support and special education teacher for nearly a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Charles Drury
Ernest Charles Drury (January 22, 1878 – February 17, 1968) was a farmer, politician and writer who served as the eighth premier of Ontario, from 1919 to 1923 as the head of a United Farmers of Ontario–Labour coalition government. Family Drury was the grandson of Richard Drury, who arrived in Crown Hill, Ontario, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, in 1819. His father, Charles Alfred Drury, continued the family farm and was a forward-looking farmer, who used new techniques and technologies. In 1882, he was president of the Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario. He also served as reeve of Oro Township, in Simcoe County, for 13 years and was elected to the Ontario Legislature as an Ontario Liberal Party member. He served from 1882 to 1890, the last two years as Ontario's first Minister of Agriculture. Early career Drury was an Opposition candidate in Simcoe North in the 1917 wartime election, which was held during the Conscription Crisis of 1917, but wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hillmer
George Hillmer (1866 – 1935) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1929 as a Conservative member. He was born on December 5, 1866 in Oakville, Canada West the son of Edward Hillmer and Jean Titherington. Hillmer originally operated a delivery service and livery stable but later became the proprietor of a Ford agency. In 1894, he married Pauline Bradbury. Hillmer was a member of the town council for Oakville, serving as mayor from 1910 to 1912 and serving eight years as reeve. He defeated Ernest Charles Drury to win a seat in the provincial assembly in 1923. Hillmer was a Master Mason Mason may refer to: Occupations * Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces * Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cut .... He died on January 30, 1935. References * ''Canadian P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Aston Blakelock
Thomas Aston Blakelock (August 10, 1883 – January 16, 1974) was an English-born merchant, building contractor and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1943 as a Liberal-Progressive member. Born in Pickering, Yorkshire, the son of James Blakelock and Mary Bulman, he came to Canada in 1906, establishing a lumber company with his brother James Bulman Blakelock. Blakelock served on the town council for Oakville, also serving as deputy reeve, reeve and mayor, as well as warden of Halton County Halton County is a former county in the Canadian province of Ontario, with an area of . It is also one of the oldest counties in Canada. History Halton County is named after Major William Mathew Halton (1746-1823), a British Army officer, who w .... In 1909, he married Isabel Parnaby. Blakelock was also building commissioner for the Oakville Board of Education. He died in 1974. T. A. Blakelock High School w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Hall (politician)
Stanley Leroy Hall (August 14, 1888 – August 21, 1962) was a Canadian politician, who represented Halton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1962 as a Progressive Conservative member. Provincial Office Hall was elected in the general election in 1943 and re-elected in the general elections in 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955 and 1959. He served as a backbench member of the George A. Drew, Thomas Laird Kennedy, Leslie Frost and John Robarts majority Progressive Conservative governments and, during each term in office, he served on an average of seven Standing Committees. He died, in office, in 1962. His election marked the beginning of a Progressive Conservative hold on the riding (now known as Burlington Burlington may refer to: Places Canada Geography * Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador * Burlington, Nova Scotia * Burlington, Ontario, the most populous city with the name "Burlington" * Burlington, Prince Edward Island * Burlington Bay, no ... that continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Kerr
George Albert Kerr (January 27, 1924 – May 21, 2007) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts and Bill Davis. Kerr was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and was the first person to hold the portfolio of environment minister in any provincial or federal cabinet in Canada. Background He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie Law School. He worked as a lawyer. Politics He served on the town council of Burlington, Ontario, from 1955 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1962. Kerr was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1963 provincial election, defeating Liberal Party candidate Owen Mullin by 6,372 votes in Halton. He served as a backbench supporter of Robarts's government for four years, and was re-elected in the 1967 election. He was appointed to cabinet on June 5, 1969, as Minister o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Ontario Electoral Reform Referendum
A referendum was held on October 10, 2007, on the question of whether to establish a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system for elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The vote was strongly in favour of the existing plurality voting or first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. Background Currently, Ontario elects Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) using the single member plurality, or first-past-the-post (FPTP), system. In this system, each voter gives one vote to a candidate in an electoral district; the candidate with the most votes wins. In most cases, the party with the most elected candidates is asked to form a government. The initiative to reform this system was first proposed in 2001 by the Liberal Party opposition leader of the time, Dalton McGuinty. The impetus for the proposal was at least in part the experience of the province with two successive majority governments elected in three consecutive elections with less than 50% of the popular vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections Ontario
Elections Ontario (french: Élections Ontario) is an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario responsible for the administration of provincial elections and referendums. It is charged with the implementation and enforcement of the ''Election Act'' ( R.S.O., c. E.6), ''Election Finances Act'' (R.S.O. 1990, c. E.7), ''Representation Act''s (various), as well as specific portions of the ''Municipal Elections Act, 1996'' (S.O. 1996, c. 32, Sched.), ''Taxpayer Protection Act, 1999'' (S.O. 1999, c. 7, Sched. A), and ''Fluoridation Act'' (R.S.O. 1990, c. F.22). The agency collects information about political parties, candidates, constituency association, leadership contestants, and third parties involved in Ontario politics. Elections Ontario is led by the Chief Electoral Officer, a non-partisan Officer of the Legislative Assembly chosen by an all-party committee. Greg Essensa, appointed in 2008, is the current Chief Electoral Officer. His predecessor was John Hollins, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Chudleigh
Ted Chudleigh (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014, representing the ridings of Halton North and later Halton. Chudleigh is the grandson of Thomas Laird Kennedy, who served as Premier of Ontario in 1949. Background Chudleigh was born in Peel County, Ontario in 1943. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1965. He later worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, and owned an IGA store in the Niagara Region. From 1980 to 1995, he was the Executive Vice-President of the ''Ontario Food Processors Association''. His brother Tom Chudleigh is the owner of Chudleigh's Limited, a commercial bakery and farm based in the Milton area whose frozen desserts are sold by grocery retailers throughout North America. Politics He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal Walt Elliot and incumbent Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Naidoo-Harris
Indira Naidoo-Harris is a Canadian former politician and journalist who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2014 provincial election, sitting as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Halton until 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, Naidoo-Harris was the province's minister of education in 2018, minister of the status of women from 2017 to 2018, early years and child care minister from 2016 to 2018, and associate minister of finance in 2016. Background Naidoo-Harris was born in Durban, South Africa under Apartheid. She immigrated to Canada as a child and grew up in Alberta. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge and moved briefly to the United States in Troy, New York, where she developed a broadcasting career with NBC and PBS before returning to Canada in the 1990s, eventually anchoring for CBC Ottawa, CITV in Edmonton, CTV National, CBC National, and Newsworld International. Prior to the election, she was a CBC Radio ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgetown Herald
The ''Georgetown Herald'' was a weekly newspaper published in Georgetown, Ontario from 1866 to 1992. History Isaac Hunter established the newspaper as the ''Halton Herald'' in 1866, with the financial backing of William Barber, after dissolving his 18 month partnership with Robert Matheson (the two having worked on '' The Canadian Champion and County of Halton Intelligencer'' in Milton, Ontario). This was not an amicable split, with the ''Herald'' attacking the Reform politics of the ''Champion'' in its early days, until Barber stepped in. Isaac had launched the paper as one aligned with Colonel George King Chisholm and the Conservatives. It would become the ''Georgetown Herald'' in 1877. It was not the first newspaper founded in Georgetown and not without its own share of troubles. During the first three decades, the paper passed through a number of different owners, including Mr. Hunter until 1869, Joseph & Richard Craig, Nelson Burns (1871), and Thomas Starret (1874). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
