- John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, … - Dennis Fentie
Dennis G. Fentie, MLA for Watson Lake (born November 8, 1950 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian politician who is the current Premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party. Owner and former manager of Francis River Construction Ltd., Fentie had been an MLA for the Yukon New Democratic Party from 1996 until crossing the floor in May, 2002 becoming leader of the Yukon Party one month later. - John Thompson
John William McLeod Thompson , BA, LLB, (born July 18, 1908 in Elkhorn, Manitoba; died December 15, 1986 in Winnipeg) was a lawyer, politician and Judge in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1962 as a Progressive Conservative, and held several cabinet posts in the government of Dufferin (Duff) Roblin. - Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson (born 1946 in Timmins, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in 1969. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a library technician at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, was an executive member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1302, … - Sean Conway
Sean Conway (born July 24, 1951 in Pembroke, Ontario) was a long-serving politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 2003, and was a high-profile cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson. Conway attended St. Joseph's Separate School, Madawaska Valley District High School, and completed his education at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) and Queen's University. - Andy Brandt
Andrew S. (Andy) Brandt (born June 11, 1938 in London, Ontario) is a former politician and public administrator in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. He later served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1987 to 1990. Brandt was educated at the University of Waterloo, … - Jack Horner
John Henry "Jack" Horner, PC (July 20 1927-November 18 2004) is a rancher and former Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", Horner was born in Saskatchewan, the fifth child in a family of six boys and three girls. His mother's uncle had been a prisoner of Louis Riel's provisional government. - Gerald Regan
Gerald Augustine Regan, LLB, QC, PC (born February 13, 1928) is a Canadian politician. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Gerald Regan graduated from Dalhousie Law School and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society in 1954. He became one of the region's best known labour lawyers, and his high-profile image led to an invitation to enter politics. He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1963 federal election. - Doug Fisher
Douglas Mason (Doug) Fisher (born September 19 1919) is a retired Canadian political columnist and former politician. The long-time dean of the Parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa, Fisher began his career as a teacher and librarian, careers he took up after returning home from World War II. He entered politics with his upset victory in the 1957 general election as a candidate for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). - Garry Guzzo
Garry Guzzo (born November 18, 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003. Guzzo was educated at the University of Ottawa, from which he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a law degree. He practiced as a lawyer with the firm of Chiarelli and Guzzo from 1969 to 1976, was a provincial court judge from 1978 to 1989. - Richard McBride
Sir Richard McBride, KCMG (December 15, 1870 - August 6, 1917) was a British Columbian politician and founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. McBride was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1898 election, and served in the cabinet of James Dunsmuir from 1900 to 1901. McBride believed that the province's system of non-party government was unstable and hindered development. After the lieutenant-governor appointed him Premier in June 1903, … - Tony Penikett
Antony (Tony) David John Penikett (born November 14, 1945) is a mediator and negotiator and former politician in Yukon, Canada. An activist with the New Democratic Party (NDP), Penikett became a member of the party's federal council in 1973 and served as executive assistant to Ed Broadbent in the mid-1970s. He was president of the federal NDP from 1981 to 1985. Born in Sussex, England, Penikett was first elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1978. - Dan Waters
Daniel Waters is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Waters worked at the Bracebridge Alcan plant before 1990, and now operates an auto repair and service shop in Baysville. He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1987 provincial election, but finished third in the central Ontario riding of Muskoka—Georgian Bay against Liberal Ken Black. - Walter Baker
Walter David Baker, PC (August 22 1930 - November 13 1983) was a Canadian parliamentarian and lawyer. Baker is best known for having been Government House Leader during the short-lived minority government of Joe Clark. He received much of the popular blame for the defeat of the government in a Motion of no confidence on December 13 1979 with the claim that the government fell because "Walter Baker couldn't count". - Jesse Flis
Jesse Philip Flis (born November 15, 1933) is a former Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984, and from 1988 to 1997, as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Flis was born in Fosston, Saskatchewan. He took his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto, and received a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He worked as an educator and school principal, … - Robert de Cotret
Robert René de Cotret, PC, BA, MBA, C.Ph (February 20 1944 - July 9 1999) was a Canadian politician. De Cotret was an economist and corporate executive before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1978 by-election. He was elected as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre, and was one of the few francophone MPs in the Tory caucus. Despite the Tory victory in the 1979 general election, de Cotret lost his seat. - Gino Matrundola
Gino Matrundola (born July 21, 1940) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. Matrundola was born in Cassino, Italy and immigrated to Canada in the 1960s, after a brief sojourn in Scotland. He was educated at the Italian Polytechnical School in Rome, and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. He was licensed as a real estate agent in North York, Ontario in 1964, and eventually founded his own realty company. - Michael Malley
Michael "Tanker" Malley is a politician in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. He represented the riding of Miramichi-Bay du Vin in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006 and served as Speaker for part of 2006. Malley, a former Miramichi city councillor and bus driver, was first elected to the legislature in the 1999 election and was re-elected in 2003. - Roch Cholette
Roch Cholette is a politician and accountant in Quebec, Canada. He is currently the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the provincial riding of Hull and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. Cholette studied at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (Université du Québec à Hull at that time) and completed a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1987. - Brenda Fowlie
Brenda Olive Fowlie is a journalist and politician in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. She was formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and a member of the cabinet. Fowlie was first elected to the legislature in the 1999 election and was re-elected in 2003 by a very narrow margin. She was originally declared the winner in 2003 by a margin of 16 votes and a recount delayed the swearing in of the cabinet and the first session of the legislature. - Richard Cashin
Richard Joseph Cashin, PC, OC, BA, LL.B (born January 5, 1937 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada) is a lawyer and former Canadian politician and trade union leader. The grandson of Sir Michael Cashin and nephew of Peter Cashin, Richard Cashin is a member of a prominent Newfoundland political family. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 general election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for St. John's West. - Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper (born July 31, 1951 in London, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Cooper was educated at vocational school, and was a rubber worker prior to his election. He served as steward of United Rubber Workers Local 667. Cooper first ran for the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1985, … - Claude Bennett
Claude Frederick Bennett is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Bennett was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Bennett was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated at the High School of Commerce, and worked as an insurance agent. He served as an alderman in Ottawa from 1960 to 1969, … - Derek Fletcher
Derek Fletcher (born July 26, 1951 in Lichfield, England) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Fletcher worked as a flexographic press operative for sixteen years at Macmillan Bathurst Industries in Guelph, Ontario. He served as president of the Guelph and District Labour Council from 1984 to 1988, … - John Sola
John Domagoj Sola (born April 15, 1944 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995. Originally a Liberal, he was forced to leave his party amid controversy. Sola has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. In 1976-77, he was the president of the Toronto Metro-Croatia Soccer Team. - Henri Courtemanche
Henri Courtemanche, P.C., (August 7 1916 - March 19 1986) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Courtemanche, a lawyer by profession, was first elected as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Labelle, Quebec in the 1949 federal election. He was defeated in 1953 but returned to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1957 federal election that brought the Progressive Conservatives to power under John Diefenbaker with a minority government. - Ed Allen
Ed Allen was a New Brunswick politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1978 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1995. His son, Mike Allen, is currently a member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was first elected to the then-safe Progressive Conservative seat of Fredericton North in the 1978 election that produced a nearly deadlocked legislature. He sat as a backbench supporter of Premier Richard Hatfield until after the 1982 election, … - Thomas Dufferin Pattullo
Thomas Dufferin ("Duff") Pattullo (January 19, 1873 - March 30, 1956) was premier of British Columbia, Canada from 1933 to 1941. The Pattullo Bridge is named in his honour as well as Prince Rupert's Pattullo Park. Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Pattullo's early career was as a journalist with two newspapers in Ontario: the "Woodstock Sentinel" in the 1890s, and as editor of the "Galt Reformer" in 1896. He got a job as secretary to James Morrow Walsh, … - Andrew Witer
Andrew Witer (born November 23, 1946) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Witer was born to a Ukrainian family in Leonberg, Germany. He came to Canada in his youth, and was educated at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. He worked as a management consultant. He first campaigned for the House of Commons in the 1980 federal election, … - Cyril Keeper
Cyril Keeper is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1980 to 1988, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party. Keeper was born in Berens River, Manitoba. He is an aboriginal Canadian, of Métis background. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg, and a Master of Arts degree from Carleton University. He worked for the government of Manitoba from 1970 to 1975, … - John Reimer
John Henry Reimer (born July 16, 1936) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1980, and again from 1984 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Reimer was born to a Mennonite family in Kitchener, Ontario. He was educated at the University of Toronto, the Ontario College of Education and the University of Waterloo, and holds Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees. - Pierre Bussières
Pierre Bussières, PC (born July 8 1939) is a former Canadian politician. Bussières was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 federal election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portneuf. He was re-elected in the 1979 election, this time from Charlesbourg. He was chairman of the Quebec Liberal caucus while the party was in opposition. - Allister Grosart
Allister Grosart, PC (December 13 1906 - February 8 1984) was a Progressive Conservative politician, Senator, journalist and businessman in Canada. Born in Dublin, Ireland, his mother was a missionary and he was raised in China. He received a degree in law from the University of Toronto but became a journalist instead of a lawyer. He worked for the "Toronto Daily Star" and "The Globe and Mail". - Lemuel John Tweedie
Lemuel John Tweedie (November 30, 1849 - July 15, 1917) was a politician from Chatham, New Brunswick. His law partner in Chatham for a time was Richard Bedford Bennett, later Prime Minister of Canada and Max Aitken for a time was his office boy. A former supporter of the federal Conservatives he joined the Liberal cabinet of New Brunswick Premier Andrew George Blair serving as Provincial Secretary in successive Liberal governments. - William Wilfred Sullivan
Sir William Wilfred Sullivan (December 6, 1839 - September 30, 1920) was a Prince Edward Island journalist, politician and jurist. After a career as Assistant editor at the "Charlottetown Herald" and as a lawyer, Sullivan was elected to the provincial legislature in 1872 as a Liberal MLA. A staunch Catholic, Sullivan became leader of the opposition in 1877 to the Protestant coalition government of Louis Henry Davies which had been formed to implement a public, … - George William Johnson
George William Johnson (born July 10, 1892 in Stratford, Ontario; died April 26, 1973) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1962, representing the Winnipeg riding of Assiniboia for the Progressive Conservative Party. He is not to be confused with another George Johnson, who also served as a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister during the same time period. Johnson was educated in Stratford. - Marcel Boulic
Marcel Boulic (died September 22, 1959) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1958 to 1959, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Dufferin Roblin. Before entering provincial politics, Boulic was the reeve of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes and the owner of a local creamery. He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in a by-election held on June 27, 1955 in the constituency of Mountain. - John Edmund Parry
John Edmund Parry (born February 6, 1946) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988, as a member of the New Democratic Party. Parry was born in London, England, UK. He was educated at Woodford Green in Essex, England, and at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Parry has a Master of Business Administration degree, and works as a business consultant. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, … - John Alexander Mathieson
John Alexander Mathieson (May 19, 1863 - January 7, 1947) was a Prince Edward Island politician and jurist. He was a schoolmaster and lawyer before entering politics with his election to the province's legislature as a Conservative in 1900. Mathieson sat on the opposition benches becoming leader of the opposition and the Conservative Party in 1903. - Francis Longworth Haszard
Francis Longworth Haszard (November 20, 1849 - July 25, 1938) was a Prince Edward Island politician and jurist. Haszard's family had been United Empire Loyalists moving to PEI from the United States after the American Revolution. He had been a magistrate in Charlottetown before being elected to the provincial legislature for the first time in 1904 as a Liberal. In 1908, he was asked by the lieutenant-governor to become Premier after the death of Arthur Peters.
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