David Searle

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David Harry Searle

QC (1936 – March 1, 2021)[1][2] was a Canadian politician and lawyer from the Northwest Territories
.

Legal career

Born in

Vancouver and practised mining and environmental law with a firm called Davis & Company. He served as president of the Law Society of the Northwest Territories.[when?] From 1991 to 2004, he was a professor at the University of British Columbia
Faculty of Law.

Searle was named to the Order of Canada in 1999 as a Member.[3]

Searle retired in August 2006.

Political career

Searle was elected to the

Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in the 1967 Northwest Territories general election; he served the riding of Mackenzie North. In his first term in office he was at the press conference to unveil the current Northwest Territories flag
on January 31, 1969.

He was re-elected to his second term in office for the new district of Keewatin North after redistribution for the 1970 Northwest Territories general election.

Searle ran for a third term in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election, this time in the new district of Yellowknife South after a much larger redistribution of the ridings. He was re-elected and on May 1, 1975 became the first elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly since Archibald Beaton Gillis in 1905.

Searle ran in the

Western Arctic as the Liberal candidate, finishing a close second to Dave Nickerson of the Progressive Conservatives
.

1979 Canadian federal election: Northwest Territories
Party Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Dave Nickerson 4,058 35.16
Liberal David Searle 3,827 33.15
New Democratic Georges Erasmus 3,385 29.33
Independent Edward McRae 273 2.37
Total valid votes 11,543 100.0  
Riding created from part of the former riding of Northwest Territories, with New Democrat Wally Firth as the incumbent.

References

  1. ^ a b Canadian Who's Who, Volume X. Trans-Canada Press. 1964–1966.
  2. CBC
    . March 4, 2020.
  3. ^ "David Harry Searle, C.M., Q.C." Order of Canada. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2010-01-02.

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Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
Preceded by MLA Mackenzie North
1967–1970
Succeeded by
District Abolished
Preceded by
New District
MLA Keewatin North
1970–1975
Succeeded by
District Abolished
Preceded by
New District
MLA Yellowknife South
1975–1979
Succeeded by
Preceded by Speaker of the Northwest Territories Assembly
1975–1979
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