John Donald MacAskill (25 November 1907 – July 25, 1994) was an educator, politician and municipal official in
Saskatchewan, Canada. He served as mayor of
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan from 1954 to 1958.
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Early life and education
He was born in Marble Mountain, Municipality of the County of Inverness
The Municipality of the County of Inverness is a county municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. It provides local government to about 17,000 residents of the historical county of the same name, except for the incorporated town ...
, Nova Scotia as one of nine children to John Norman MacAskill and Mary Catherine MacLeod. He came to Saskatchewan as a farm worker at the age of 17. He studied at the Saskatoon Normal School
The Saskatoon Teachers' College, originally called the Saskatoon Normal School, was a facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada for training teachers.
The school occupied temporary premises at first, then moved to a handsome brick and stone build ...
and taught school in Borden and Hanley
Hanley is one of the six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
Hanley is the ''de facto'' city centre, having long been the ...
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Career and later life
In 1929, he moved to Saskatoon to become vice-principal at Princess Alexandra School. While he was teaching, he earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Saskatchewan. He later worked as an insurance salesman and then opened a men's wear store in the late 1940s. He was elected to the Public School Board in 1946 and served on Saskatoon city council in 1953 before being elected mayor. He resigned as mayor in March 1958 to become city commissioner. He resigned from that position in June 1966 for health reasons. He later served as principal of Dundurn School from 1969 to 1973.[
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Legacy
McAskill Crescent in the Avalon neighbourhood in Saskatoon was named in his honour.[
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1907 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Canadian educators
20th-century mayors of places in Canada
Mayors of Saskatoon
People from Inverness County, Nova Scotia
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