Donald MacInnis (21 August 1918 – 9 May 2007) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

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. He was born in

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and became a

coal miner Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

by career. He was first elected at the Cape Breton South riding in the 1957 general election, defeating the long-serving incumbent

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member of parliament

Clarence Gillis Clarence (Clarie) Gillis, MP (October 3, 1895 – December 17, 1960) was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He was born on Nova Scotia's mainland, but grew up in Cape Breton. He worke ...

, also a former miner. MacInnis defeated Gillis again in a rematch almost a year later in the 1958 general election, known as the "Diefenbaker Sweep." MacInnis remained a Member of Parliament throughout the 1960s and early 1970s except for the 25th Parliament when he was defeated in the riding by

Malcolm Vic MacInnis Malcolm MacInnis (born 22 May 1933) is a Canadian educator and politician. MacInnis served as a New Democratic Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, MacInnis was first elected at the Cape Breton South ...

of the

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in the 1962 election. Since the 1968 election, MacInnis represented

Cape Breton—East Richmond Cape Breton—East Richmond was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1997. This riding was created in 1966 from Cape Breton South, Inverness—Richmond and North ...

, one of the ridings which replaced the Cape Breton South electoral district in a boundary realignment. After his term in the 29th Parliament ended in 1974, MacInnis left national office and did not campaign for another term. From 1988, MacInnis served as the final Mayor of Glace Bay, a municipality which was dissolved in 1995 and replaced by the

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1918 births 2007 deaths Canadian coal miners Mayors of places in Nova Scotia Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia People from Glace Bay Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{NovaScotia-mayor-stub