Edward Arunah Dunlop, (June 27, 1919 – January 6, 1981) was a politician in

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, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1971 who represented the

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ridings of

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and then York-Forest Hill. He briefly served as a cabinet minister in the government of

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Background

He was born in

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, the son of

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, and educated at

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and the

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. His father served as an MPP for nearly 20 years and was provincial treasurer in the 1930s. His grandfather, Arunah Dunlop was an MPP in the 1890s and his great uncle was a member in the 1870s. He married Dorothy Joyce Tupper, the granddaughter of Sir

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, in 1944. They had two children, Edward (Ted) and Charlotte. Dunlop served with

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from 1937 to 1944, reaching the rank of major. He was blinded in 1943 after attempting to dispose of a grenade dropped by another soldier during a training exercise. Dunlop became an officer of the

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in 1946. He went on to serve as director of the Casualty Rehabilitation Division of the

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. He was the first president for the

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. Dunlop was also national director for the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society (CARS) and served on the national council for the

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. He was named a member of the

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in 1980. He died from cancer in 1981, at the age of 61.

Politics

In the 1963 provincial election, Dunlop ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the

Kent West. He defeated NDP candidate Stan Midacik by 2,273 votes. In

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, his riding was renamed as York-Forest Hill even though the boundaries remained the same. He defeated NDP candidate Leon Kumove by 3,649 votes. He served as a

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supporter of the government of

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. During his tenure, he served as chair of the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections and as chair of the Select Committee on redrafting the provinces election laws. He was one of the few Conservative MPPs to vote against the party on what he called a matter of principle. He was against the "wishy-washy" practice of abstaining from controversial votes. In 1971, when

became Premier, he was appointed to cabinet as a

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. Dunlop announced his retirement from politics in May 1970, well before his appointment to cabinet. He said that two terms was "a sufficient part of a man's career." He wanted to devoted more time to his job as director of CARS and spend more time with his family.

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