Lloyd R. Shaw

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Lloyd Robert Shaw, CM (February 7, 1914 – October 16, 1993) was a Canadian businessman, political activist and organizer, a member of the Order of Canada,[1] and father of the late Nova Scotia New Democratic Party and federal New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough.

Life and career

Shaw was born in

Halifax and Ottawa
.

While in Ottawa Shaw was very important in the founding of Carleton University, becoming the university's first registrar. It is in Ottawa where Shaw met many of the founders of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. When the CCF officially formed in 1933 Shaw became the political party's first national research director.[2] In the mid-1940s Shaw and his family returned to Nova Scotia, where he held the position of provincial secretary of the Nova Scotia wing of the CCF until 1949.

During World War II Shaw enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and spent the war as a flight sergeant. It is after the war that Shaw took over the family business as CEO of L.E. Shaw Ltd. He held the position of CEO until 1979 when he retired at the age of 65.

Shaw was involved in many community and business organizations. He held the position of director of the

Elderhostel
.

Shaw received the degree Member of the

Nova Scotia Technical College
.

Shaw died on October 16, 1993, at the age of 79 in Halifax, Nova Scotia after a four-year-long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Shaw's daughter

byelection in 1948, and for the NDP in the 1974 federal election, but was never elected to the House of Commons of Canada
.

Electoral results

1949 Canadian federal election: Halifax
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Liberal Gordon Benjamin Isnor 33,401 29.33 Green tickY
Liberal
John Horace Dickey
31,627 27.77 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Joseph Patrick Connolly 18,826 16.53  
Progressive Conservative Frederick William Bissett 18,223 16.00  
Co-operative Commonwealth Hyacinth Lawrence MacIntosh 6,018 5.28  
Co-operative Commonwealth Lloyd R. Shaw 5,777 5.07  
Total valid votes 113,872 100.00
1945 Canadian federal election: Halifax
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Liberal Gordon Benjamin Isnor 26,407 25.15 Green tickY
Liberal
William Chisholm MacDonald
23,616 22.49 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Henry P. MacKeen 18,182 17.31  
Progressive Conservative Gerald Dwyer 18,037 17.18  
Co-operative Commonwealth Lloyd R. Shaw 8,937 8.51  
Co-operative Commonwealth R. Leo Rooney 8,783 8.36  
Labor–Progressive R. Charles Murray 560 0.53  
Independent O.R. Regan 488 0.46  
Total valid votes 105,010 100.00

References

  1. ^ "Mr. Lloyd R. Shaw".
  2. ^ Michael Clugston. The one-woman stronghold of the Nova Scotia NDP. Maclean's, March 29, 1982.