Frank Mazzuca (Canadian politician)

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Frank Mazzuca
Mayor of
Capreol, Ontario, Canada
In office
1975–1997
Preceded byHarold Prescott
Succeeded byDave Kilgour
Chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury
In office
October 5, 1998 – December 31, 2000
Preceded byDoug Craig
Succeeded byposition abolished
Personal details
BornMarch 15, 1922
Capreol
, Ontario, Canada
Professionbusinessman

Frank Roger Mazzuca, Sr. (15 March 1922 - 9 September 2009) was a

Capreol, Ontario. He served as mayor of the town from 1975 to 1997, and as chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury
from 1998 to 2000.

Early life

Born in Italy, he moved to Capreol with his family at the age of seven.[1] He worked in his parents' family-owned grocery store in childhood.[1]

As a young man Mazzuca went to work for CN Rail, where he was a brakeman for 37 years.[1] In 1950 he opened Mazzuca Furniture & Appliance Company.[2]

Political career

First elected to the town council of Capreol in 1957,[1] Mazzuca served as the town's mayor from 1975 to 1997. In that year, he ran for chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, losing to Peter Wong — however, Wong died in office the following year, and Mazzuca ran in and won the resulting by-election. He served as the final chair of the regional municipality, which was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury in 2001.

During Mazzuca's term as regional chair, Sudbury resident Ron Billard wrote a letter to the editor of the

Queen's Park;[3] Mazzuca's response to the letter was "just tell the stupid bastard to call me on the phone".[4] Billard sued for defamation, demanding $150,000 in damages, although the suit was settled out of court for $7,500;[3] Mazzuca in turn sued the Star for printing a comment he had intended off the record.[4]

Although a longtime opponent of proposals to amalgamate the regional municipality of Sudbury into a single city, he endorsed the proposal in 1999 after provincial

Northern Life quoted Mazzuca as saying that "It was a great thing to call up the mayor and say, 'A dog shit on my lawn, what are you going to do about it?' When they'd call me I'd tell them, 'Not my dog, not my lawn, not my shit.'"[6]

Mazzuca was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.[7]

References

  1. ^
    Sudbury Star
    , September 10, 2009.
  2. Northern Life
    , September 10, 2009.
  3. ^
    Sudbury Star
    , December 18, 2003.
  4. ^
    Sudbury Star
    , December 27, 2000.
  5. Sudbury Star
    , September 4, 1999.
  6. ^
    Northern Life
    , April 25, 2006.
  7. ^ Governor General Of Canada - Honours[permanent dead link] - retrieved 12 September 2009
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