Fred Theodore Klym (September 28, 1907 in Brokenhead,
Manitoba
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– November 25, 1988) was a
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in
Manitoba
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Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
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from 1959 to 1969.
Klym was the son of Fred Klym and Maria Molinski, immigrants from the
Ukraine
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who came to Canada in 1907. Although he had initially planned to become a lawyer and began his studies at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Manitoba Teacher Training School. He taught school from 1930 to 1956. Klym bought the family farm when his parents moved to
Beausejour, Manitoba
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in 1949, farming there until 1972.
He was initially associated with the Liberal-Progressive Party, and unsuccessfully sought that party's nomination in St. Clements for the 1953 provincial election. He registered as an Independent Liberal-Progressive candidate after losing the nomination to
Stanley Copp
Stanley Copp (May 25, 1914 – May 1, 1987) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958.
Copp was born in Winnipeg and educated in North Kildonan, now part o ...
by six votes, but withdrew before election day.
Klym later switched to the Progressive Conservative Party, and was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1959 provincial election, defeating Liberal-Progressive incumbent William Lucko by 371 votes in the
Winnipeg
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-area riding of
Springfield
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. He defeated Lucko again by 431 votes in the 1962 election, and by 584 votes in that of
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finished second.
Klym was a solid backbench supporter of the governments of
Dufferin Roblin
Dufferin "Duff" Roblin, (June 17, 1917 – May 30, 2010) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre ...
and
Walter Weir
Walter Cocksmith Weir (June 7, 1929 – April 17, 1985) was a Canadian politician. Weir served as the 15th premier of Manitoba from 1967 to 1969.
The son of James Dixon Weir, he was born in Hugh Bluff, Manitoba and was educated there and i ...
. He was instrumental in the creation of the Alfred Hole Goose Sanctuary, located within
Whiteshell Provincial Park
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, and was an ardent supporter of the construction of the Red River Floodway - the floodway created to protect the City of Winnipeg from the nearly annual spring flooding of the Red River.
He ran in the 1969 provincial election in the significantly redistributed riding of Lac du Bonnet, and was defeated by
Samuel Uskiw
Samuel Uskiw (October 18, 1933 in East Selkirk, Manitoba – March 19, 2011) was a politician and political fundraiser in Manitoba, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1966 to 1986, and served ...