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Chuck MacNeil

Chuck MacNeil

Canadian politician (1944–2022)

Charles Wyndham MacNeil (December 2, 1944 – June 18, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Guysborough in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.[1]

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Born in 1944 at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, he was the son of Edgar William MacNeil and Elizabeth Adelaide (Weir). A graduate of Mount Allison University and Dalhousie University, MacNeil married Elizabeth Alison Fleming in 1966. He practiced as a family physician in Yarmouth and Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia since 1969.[2]

From 1982 to 1984, MacNeil served as a municipal councillor for the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's.[2] He entered provincial politics in the 1984 election, defeating Liberal leader Sandy Cameron by 390 votes in the Guysborough riding.[3][4] MacNeil was re-elected in the 1988 election.[5]

On December 23, 1988, MacNeil was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Lands and Forests.[6] When Donald Cameron took over as premier in February 1991, he named MacNeil Minister of Mines and Energy.[7]

In February 1992, MacNeil was shuffled to Minister of Finance.[8] In the 1993 election, MacNeil was defeated by Liberal Ray White in the new Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury riding.[9][10]

MacNeil died in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on June 18, 2022, aged 77.[11]

References

  1. [1]
    "Electoral History for Guysborough–Eastern Shore–Tracadie". Nova Scotia Legislative Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
  2. [2]
    "Chuck MacNeil fonds". Archives Canada. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  3. [3]
    "Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1984" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 1984. p. 69. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  4. [4]
    "Buchanan Tories crush opponents in N.S. election". The Globe and Mail. November 7, 1984.
  5. [5]
    "Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1988" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 1988. p. 72. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-12. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  6. [6]
    "Controversial minister returns as Buchanan shuffles cabinet". The Globe and Mail. December 24, 1988.
  7. [7]
    "Cameron streamlines cabinet: several departments to amalgamate". The Chronicle Herlad. February 27, 1991.
  8. [8]
    "Thornhill back in cabinet after year of political exhile". The Globe and Mail. February 18, 1992.
  9. [9]
    "Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1993" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 1993. p. 89. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  10. [10]
    "Liberal sweep claims cabinet ministers". The Chronicle Herald. May 26, 1993. Archived from the original on August 30, 2000. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  11. [11]
    Drake Lowthers (July 5, 2022). "Former local physician, municipal councillor, MLA, and cabinet minister passes away". Port Hawkesbury Reporter. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
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