John Mlacak (February 27, 1936http://www.letudiantoutaouais.ca/Culture/2009-11-19/article-1488747/John-Mlacak-:-peintre-et-pionnier-a-Kanata/1 – September 19, 2014) was a

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politician and painter. He served as reeve of

March Township, Ontario March Township is a geographic township and former municipality originally part of Carleton County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is currently part of the City of Ottawa. It is located in the western part of the county, bordered to the northwest ...

from 1968 to 1976.

Life

Mlacak was born in 1936 in

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, the son of

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immigrants. He received a bachelor's and master's degree in engineering from Queen's University. After his education, he began working for the Northern Electric Company, which later became

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. He stayed with Nortel until 1995. During his career, he also served as a commissioner with the

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and was on the planning committee for the

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. In 1964, Mlacak and his wife were one of the first families to move to the new subdivision of Beaverbrook. He was interested in planning issues and was excited about the prospect of beginning a community from scratch, which spurred an interest to enter politics. He served as reeve of the then-mostly rural March Township from 1968 to 1976. The rapidly suburbanizing township would become the City of Kanata in 1978, and would later be amalgamated into Ottawa in 2001. During his retirement, Mlacak focused on a career in painting. He co-founded the Kanata Civic Art Gallery and one of his works was featured in the Croatian Embassy. He was elected as a member of the Society of Canadian Artists in 2009.

External links

John Mlacak Fine Art

Obituary

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mlacak, John Reeves of March Township Queen's University at Kingston alumni Canadian male painters 1936 births 2014 deaths Canadian people of Croatian descent Artists from Windsor, Ontario Politicians from Windsor, Ontario