Norman Chamberlist
Norman Chamberlist | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Yukon Territorial Council for Whitehorse East | |
| In office 1961–1961 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Drury Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Boyd |
| In office 1967–1974 | |
| Preceded by | Herbert Boyd |
| Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1918 |
| Died | 2001 |
| Residence(s) | Whitehorse, Yukon |
| Occupation | electrical engineer, hotelier |
Norman (Norm) Chamberlist (1918–2001) was a Canadian politician, who served on Whitehorse City Council and the Yukon Territorial Council.[1]
First elected in the 1961 election,[1] he was forced to resign the seat within a few months after a firm in which he was part owner won a contract from the council, placing Chamberlist in a conflict of interest.[2] Herbert Boyd, the only candidate to file nomination papers when a by-election was called, was acclaimed to the seat in early 1962.[2]
Chamberlist stood for office again in the 1967 election, and won election that year.[3] In his speech on election night, he called on the Parliament of Canada to extend greater power to the territorial council.[3] In 1968, he was an outspoken opponent of the city of Whitehorse installing parking meters, even hiring a lawyer to represent all citizens of the city in challenging their parking tickets.[4]
Shortly before the 1970 election, Chamberlist opposed a federal government report on the Yukon, on the grounds that Canada had been granted administratorship rights over the territory but actual legal ownership still rested with the British Empire.[5]
He was reelected in the 1970 election, and was one of the first two councillors to be appointed to the new executive committee.[6] This gave him ministerial responsibilities over health and welfare in the territory.[7] Chamberlist and his fellow executive councillor Hilda Watson built a voting bloc with two other non-executive councillors, which gave them effective control over virtually all council business.[8] He was dropped from the executive committee in 1973, and was succeeded by Clive Tanner.[7]
He did not run for reelection to the territorial council in the 1974 election, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was a British Columbia Liberal Party candidate in Vancouver East in that province's 1975 election, but did not win.
He died in 2001.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Canadian Minister Hears Proposal for Road Extension". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. October 6, 1961. p. 3. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Week in West". Brandon Sun. January 22, 1962. p. 12. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "New-Look Council for the Yukon". Ottawa Journal. September 12, 1967. p. 12. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Whitehorse No Booster of Meters". San Antonio Express. November 29, 1968. p. 10. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Claim Yukon territory is not owned by Canada". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. July 3, 1970. p. 35. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Other News from 1970. Hougen Group of Companies.
- ^ a b Joyce Hayden, Yukon's Women of Power: Political Pioneers in a Northern Canadian Colony. Windwalker Press, 1999. ISBN 9780968626603.
- ^ "Dissension racks council in Yukon". Montreal Gazette, April 4, 1972.
