George Black (Canadian politician)
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Canadian Parliament for Yukon | |
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In office March 26, 1940 – June 27, 1949 | |
Preceded by | Martha Black⋅ |
Succeeded by | James Aubrey Simmons |
In office December 6, 1921 – October 14, 1935 | |
Preceded by | Alfred Thompson |
Succeeded by | Martha Black |
Personal details | |
Born | Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada | April 10, 1873
Died | August 23, 1965 | (aged 92)
Political party | Conservative |
George Black PC (April 10, 1873 – August 23, 1965) was an administrator and politician in Yukon, Canada. He went to Yukon in 1898 during the Gold Rush and prospected for gold, making a fortune and losing it when his claim was swept away in a flood. He then established a law practice in Dawson City. He was elected to the Yukon Territorial Council in 1905, and first ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1908 federal election but was defeated.
In the
During
Following the war, he settled in British Columbia in 1919, and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
He first won a
After the Tories won the
Black was released from hospital in July 1935, and moved to Vancouver to recuperate. Martha stepped aside, and allowed Black to run for the Yukon seat in the 1940 election. In the 1945 election the Liberal riding association was concerned that Communist union organizer Tom McEwen of the Labor-Progressive Party could win the election and opted not to run a candidate in Yukon riding and instead supported Black against the Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The local unions supported McEwen and the LPP's platform of support for collective bargaining, family allowance, old age pensions, workers’ compensation and equality for "Indians and Eskimos."[2] Black campaigned on a more left wing platform, promising collective bargaining, minimum wages, maximum-hour and minimum-age laws, paid holidays, unemployment insurance and labour representation on government boards and defeated McEwan by a margin of 162 votes.[3] He remained in Parliament until the 1949 election, which he did not contest. He attempted to recapture his seat in the 1953 election but was unsuccessful.
References
- ^ "www.canadiansoldiers.com". www.canadiansoldiers.com. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
- ^ Gates, Michael (April 29, 2011). "Was the winter carnival a communist plot?". Yukon News. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "History of Federal Ridings - YUKON (1945/06/11)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2012-01-27.