Peter Wong (Canadian politician)

Peter Wong (July 8, 1931 – June 6, 1998) was a

Early life

Born in

Wong was also an avid curler, and played second for the Northern Ontario team at the 1973 Macdonald Brier, on a team skipped by Don Harry. The rink went 3-7 at the event.^[1]

Wong and his wife Lynn had two children.^[3]

Mayoralty

After losing his job with the city in a round of austerity measures incumbent mayor

In 1989, Peter and Lynn Wong attended a parade in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as special guests on the occasion of that town's 350th anniversary.^[10]

In the 1991 municipal elections, former mayor Jim Gordon sought a return to office, and Wong was defeated.^[11]

He subsequently served on several municipal and provincial boards and commissions, including as a vice-chair of the Ontario Highway Transport Board and as chair of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund,^[3] as a chair of the local United Way, and as a board member of the Sudbury Regional Hospital.^[3]

Regional chair

In the 1997 municipal elections, the provincial government reformed the structure of the regional municipality, making the position of regional council chair a generally elected position for the first time. The position had previously been filled by a vote within council. Wong stood as a candidate and won over challenger Frank Mazzuca, becoming the municipality's first elected regional chair.^[3]

After serving less than a year in that office, Wong died of a heart attack on June 6, 1998, while attending a meeting of the

Mazzuca, Wong's challenger in the 1997 election, won the by-election following Wong's death, and was the final chair of the regional municipality before its amalgamation into the current city of Greater Sudbury.

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