Fred C. Stinson

Frederick (Fred) Coles Stinson
Frederick (Fred) Coles Stinson
Member of the Canadian Parliament; for York Centre
	In office; 1957–1962
Preceded by	Al Hollingworth
Succeeded by	James Edgar Walker
Personal details
Born	December 28, 1922; Toronto, Ontario
Died	June 17, 2007 (aged 84); Toronto, Ontario
Political party	Progressive Conservative

Frederick (Fred) Coles Stinson (December 28, 1922 – June 17, 2007) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, and the Member of Parliament for the federal riding of York Centre from 1957 to 1962.

Born in

Trinity University in Toronto before joining the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940, serving on convoy duty. He returned to Canada after the war and graduated from law school, articling at the firm of Parkinson Gardiner, where he met his future political mentor, Fred Gardiner

, the future chairman of Metropolitan Toronto.

Stinson became a school trustee in the early 1950s and soon afterwards was appointed chairman of the North York board of education. In the

Avro Arrow project and the closure of the plant near his riding made him unpopular in his riding; he blamed the Arrow decision for his loss in the 1962 federal election to James Edgar Walker, a Liberal

.

During his time as a Member of Parliament, Stinson visited Mainland China, being the first sitting Canadian member of parliament to do so, and attended the

Canadian University Service Overseas and was honorary consul for Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso

).

After his parliamentary career ended, Stinson criticized the Diefenbaker government for what he felt was its anti-American stance. He returned to private practise in Toronto and was one of the organizers of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy.

Frederick Coles Stinson died in Toronto on June 17, 2007.

References

F.F. Langan (11 July 2007). "No favourite of Diefenbaker, his career as an MP was over at 39". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11 July 2007.^{[permanent dead link]}
Fred C. Stinson – Parliament of Canada biography