Allan Grossman

Allan Grossman (December 25, 1910 – September 1, 1991) was a member of the

Grossman's father, Moishe, had left Russian occupied Poland in 1907. Two years later, Moishe Grossman brought his wife Sarah and their then six children to Canada. Allan Grossman was the seventh child and the first member of the family to be born in Canada.

At age sixteen Grossman and a handful of other boys formed the "Junior Conservative Association of Toronto". Probably the first Toronto political organization for youths, it was the beginning of the "Young Progressive Conservatives."

Political life

Grossman became a successful businessman and organized his fellow insurance agents into a union to fight the entry into Canada of an allegedly communist-dominated union from the United States. He was president of Allan Grossman Insurance Services Ltd.^[1]

In 1951, former Toronto mayor,

In 1955, he ran provincially as the Progressive Conservative candidate against the Labor-Progressive Party incumbent J. B. Salsberg for the downtown Toronto riding of St. Andrew. Grossman won, defeating the last Communist in the Ontario legislature.

In 1960,

In 1971, Grossman was appointed by Robarts successor, Bill Davis. as Minister of Trade and Development, with additional responsibility for Housing. He led the first trade mission from the Western world to China.

Grossman became Minister of Revenue in 1972 and continued his responsibility for housing. He introduced Ontario's tax credit program to assist the elderly and low income families and eliminated much of the red tape that generally plagues a tax-collecting Ministry. In 1974, Grossman became the Provincial Secretary for Resources Development with overall policy responsibility for seven ministries.

Outside politics Grossman fought to help the

While Grossman was campaigning for reelection in 1967, he saw a man whose clothes were on fire. The man had been working on his car and the clothes were greasy. He was saved when Grossman and a police constable used their coats to smother the flames.[2]

After politics

After retiring from public life in 1975, Allan Grossman served as chairman of the

Grossman died on September 1, 1991, of cancer in Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Center; he was 80 years old.[3]

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External links

• Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history