| William Hawrelak | |
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| In office November 7, 1951 – September 9, 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Sidney Parsons |
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| Succeeded by | Frederick John Mitchell |
| In office October 16, 1963 – March 11, 1965 |
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| Preceded by | Elmer Ernest Roper |
| Succeeded by | Vincent M. Dantzer |
| In office October 16, 1974 – November 7, 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Ivor Dent |
| Succeeded by | Terry Cavanagh |
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Alderman on the Edmonton City Council
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| In office November 2, 1949 – November 7, 1951 |
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| Born | October 3, 1915 Shandro, Alberta |
| Died | November 7, 1975 (aged 60) Edmonton, Alberta |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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Liberal Party of Canada |
| Spouse | Pearl Shandro |
| Children | Three daughters |
| Occupation | Businessman |
William Hawrelak (October 3, 1915 – November 7, 1975) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a the longest-serving mayor in Edmonton's history, and a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons. List of Edmonton Mayors: Matthew McCauley ( 1892 - 1894) Herbert Charles Wilson ( 1895 Sidney Parsons (born 1893 died April 22, 1955) was a Canadian Politician, Mayor of Edmonton Alberta, and candidate Frederick John Mitchell (born December 4, 1893; died December 25, 1979) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor Elmer Ernest Roper ( June 4, 1893 &ndash November 12, 1994) was a politician in Alberta, Canada. Vincent Martin Dantzer ( 2 October 1923 - 13 March 2001) was a Canadian lawyer economist and politician a member of the Ivor G Dent (born February 7, 1924) is politician from Alberta, Canada, a former mayor of Edmonton, and a former candidate for Terence James (Terry Cavanagh (born July 19, 1926) is a Canadian politician and former mayor and municipal councillor in Edmonton Alberta The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 Edmonton (ˈɛdmɨntɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 The Liberal Party of Canada ( Parti libéral du Canada) colloquially known as the Grits (originally " Clear Grits " is a major Canadian political Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Edmonton (ˈɛdmɨntɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The House of Commons (Chambre des communes is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and
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Early life
Hawrelak was born in Shandro, Alberta to Ukrainian immigrants William and Anastasia Hawrelak (the family's ancestral name was Гавриляк (Havriliak)). A Ukrainian Canadian is a person of Ukrainian descent or origin who was born in or immigrated to Canada. He married Pearl Shandro (daughter of Alberta MLA Andrew Shandro, after whom Hawrelak's hometown was named) the pair would have three daughters. The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. Andrew S Shandro ( April 3, 1886 at Russ Banilla Bukowina, which was then a province of the Austria-Hungary Empire – January 13
In 1945, Hawrelak moved to Edmonton and purchased the Prairie Rose Manufacturing Co. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar , which made soft drinks. He served as president of the Alberta Farmer's Union and of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues for entering politics.
Early career in municipal politics
Hawrelak's first attempt at political office took place in the 1948 municipal election, in which he ran for Edmonton City Council and was defeated, finishing seventh of twelve candidates for alderman. The 1948 municipal election was held November 3, 1948 to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council. The Edmonton City Council is the governing body of the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was more successful in the next election, winning the last available aldermanic position by finishing sixth of nine candidates after being backed by the Citizens' Committee, a municipal political party dominated by Anglo-Saxon businessmen. The 1949 municipal election was held November 2, 1949 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council. English Canada|Canadians of English descentAn English Canadian is a Canadian whose principal language is English or who is of English ancestry; it is used
In 1951, he took over as mayor on an interim basis when Sidney Parsons had to leave the position for health reasons. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Sidney Parsons (born 1893 died April 22, 1955) was a Canadian Politician, Mayor of Edmonton Alberta, and candidate In that year's election, he won the position more permanently by winning more than sixty-five percent of the vote and defeating the returned Parsons and one other candidate. The 1951 municipal election was held November 7, 1951 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the separate school
First stint as mayor
Hawrelak initially saw considerable political success: his re-election bids in the 1953 and 1955 elections were unopposed, and in the 1957 election he easily dispatched his two challengers, both former aldermen, winning more than sixty-five percent of the vote. The 1953 municipal election was held October 14, 1953 to elect six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council ( William Hawrelak was acclaimed for a second The 1955 municipal election was held October 19, 1955 to elect five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council ( William Hawrelak was acclaimed for a third The 1957 municipal election was held November 3, 1957 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school
Hawrelak presided over a time of prosperity resulting, in part, from the discovery of oil near Edmonton in 1947. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The city was able to provide a variety of new facilities, including a main branch for the Edmonton Public Library (which would later be named after Stanley Milner, a political rival of Hawrelak's), a new city hall, the Riverside Golf Course, the Valley Zoo, Fort Edmonton Park, the Riverside Gold Course, the Groat Bridge, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium, Borden Park, Coronation Park, Mayfair Park (later renamed in Hawrelak's honour), and the Edmonton portion of the Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16). The Edmonton Public Library (EPL is a publicly funded Library institution in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The Valley Zoo is a Zoo located in the heart of Edmonton Alberta 's river valley Fort Edmonton Park is an attraction in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. William Hawrelak Park (or simply Hawrelak Park is a park in Edmonton Alberta. The Yellowhead Highway is a major east-west highway connecting the four western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan Highway 16 is central and northern Alberta 's primary east-west highway
In 1958, Ed Leger - who would later become the longest-serving alderman in Edmonton's history, before his record was surpassed by Ron Hayter - presented a petition to city council that called for an investigation into the city administration. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ron Hayter is the longest-serving city councillor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served since 1971 until 1995 when he stepped down to join the National Parole Board Leger alleged that Hawrelak had used his position to financially benefit himself, his family, and his associates.
An ensuing inquiry by Justice Marshall Porter found Hawrelak guilty of "gross misconduct" - including, in some cases, attempts to influence rezoning of land he owned - in six different land transactions. Hawrelak resigned September 9, 1959, but continued to deny any wrongdoing. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Return to office and second stint
The city sued Hawrelak, and he ultimately paid $100,000 plus $4,000 in legal fees to settle the lawsuit; this settlement also made him eligible to again seek elected municipal office, which he did in the 1963 election. The 1963 municipal election was held October 16, 1963 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on each of the public In an election that has been called the dirtiest in Edmonton's history, he narrowly defeated alderman Stanley Milner. His victory was marred by a riot that erupted when a group of students marching to city hall to protest Hawrelak's re-election victory were met by a mob loyal to the mayor, leading the Edmonton Journal - which was regularly critical of Hawrelak - to speculate that the mob was organized by the same people who "toured meetings during the recent election campaign with the sole purpose of preventing anti-Hawrelak candidates from speaking". The Edmonton Journal is a daily Newspaper in Edmonton Alberta.
Hawrelak was re-elected in the 1964 election, defeating incumbent alderman and former Member of Parliament George Prudham, but his second stint as mayor would also end prematurely: on March 11, 1965, Chief Justice C. The 1964 Edmonton municipal election was held October 14, 1964 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to George Prudham PC ( February 27 1904 &ndash August 24 1974) was a Canadian politician Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. C. McLaurin of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta disqualified Hawrelak from his position after ruling that he had violated the City Act through his involvement with Sun Alta Builder's Ltd. The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta is the Superior court of the Canadian province of Alberta. , of which he owned forty percent and which had bought land from the city while he was in office. Again Hawrelak denied wrongdoing, and appealed the decision up to the Supreme Court of Canada, which upheld it (he did win a partial victory in March of 1975 when the same court reversed a ruling of a lower court that ordered that he return $80,117 in profits from the dealings to the city; the Supreme Court of Canada found that there were no profits to be returned). The Supreme Court of Canada ( French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian Events in March American Red Cross Month Fire Prevention month ( The Philippines) Women's History Month ( United Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Out of office and federal politics
Hawrelak ran for mayor in the 1966 election, but was defeated by Vincent Dantzer, the man city council had chosen to replace him as mayor. The 1966 municipal election was held October 19, 1966 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the Vincent Martin Dantzer ( 2 October 1923 - 13 March 2001) was a Canadian lawyer economist and politician a member of the This would be the only mayoral defeat Hawrelak would suffer in his career. After this defeat, he declared himself done with city politics. He turned his attention instead to the federal scene.
In the 1957 federal election, Hawrelak, still mayor and before his political troubles had started, had run as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate in Edmonton East. The Canadian federal election of 1957 was held June 10, 1957, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 23rd Parliament The Liberal Party of Canada ( Parti libéral du Canada) colloquially known as the Grits (originally " Clear Grits " is a major Canadian political Edmonton East (formerly known as Edmonton Centre-East) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in He had come within three hundred votes of unseating incumbent Social Credit Party of Canada MP Ambrose A. Holowach, but had not hitherto made any subsequent bids for federal election. The Social Credit Party of Canada ( French: Parti Crédit social du Canada) was a conservative - Populist political party in Ambrose A Holowach (born July 22, 1914, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - died February 27, 1993) was a businessman This changed with the 1968 federal election. The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on June 25, 1968, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 28th Parliament Hawrelak ran in Edmonton Centre. Edmonton Centre is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 Denied the Liberal nomination, he ran instead as an "Independent Liberal". He finished third, behind Progressive Conservative Steve Paproski and official Liberal Donald Gray. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ( PC) ( Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) ( 1867 – 2003) was a Canadian Steven Eugene Paproski PC ( September 23, 1928 &ndash December 3, 1993) was a Canadian politician He may have had some impact after all, however: the gap between the Conservative Paproski and the Liberal Gray was fewer than two hundred votes, while the independent Liberal Hawrelak won more than seven thousand.
Third stint and death
Reversing himself, Hawrelak ran for mayor again in the 1974 election against incumbent Ivor Dent, future mayor Cec Purves, alderman David Ward, and three other candidates. The 1974 municipal election was held October 16, 1974 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the Ivor G Dent (born February 7, 1924) is politician from Alberta, Canada, a former mayor of Edmonton, and a former candidate for Cecil John Harry (Cec Purves (born October 18 1933 is a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton. Kiviaq (born as David Ward in 1936 is a Canadian Inuit Lawyer, Politician, and former Sportsman He was the first Inuk Even in this crowded field, Hawrelak won more than forty-nine percent of the vote in his return to office. His last term was marked by a similar style of governance to his previous terms: he was accused of stacking city boards and commissions with his friends, he appointed a disbarred lawyer as his executive assistant, and allowed property taxes into his holdings to fall in arrears (which he characterized as an oversight). However, he also faced new opposition: the council on which he served included a number of urban reformers as well as his old nemesis Ed Leger. Hawrelak couldn't maintain the tight control to which he was accustomed.
Fifteen months after his election, on November 7, 1975, William Hawrelak died of a heart attack. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. More than ten thousand people came to pay their respects as his body lay in city council chambers.
External links
- Edmonton Public Library biography of William Hawrelak
- City of Edmonton biography of William Hawrelak
- William Hawrelak and Land Transactions (Alberta Online Encyclopedia)
- The Invincible Mayor: Edmonton's Roller Coaster Ride with William Hawrelak (edmontonhistory.ca)
| Preceded by Sidney Parsons |
Mayor of Edmonton 1951-1959 |
Succeeded by Frederick John Mitchell |
| Preceded by Elmer Ernest Roper |
Mayor of Edmonton 1964-1965 |
Succeeded by Vincent M. Dantzer |
| Preceded by Ivor Dent |
Mayor of Edmonton 1974-1975 |
Succeeded by Terry Cavanagh |
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