Cyril Arthur Goodwin Overall (May 7, 1905 – after 1945) was an English

England

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-born mechanical engineer and political figure in Ontario

Ontario

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. He represented Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls (provincial electoral district)

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1943 to 1945 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member.

He was born in Walthamstow

Walthamstow

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, Essex

Essex

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, the son of William Joseph Overall and Annie Sophia Walker, and came to Canada in 1906 with his family. Overall was educated in Stamford and Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, Ontario

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, at the Tri-State College of Engineering in Angola, Indiana

Angola, Indiana

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 and at the Ontario Training College for Technical Teachers in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

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. In 1935, he married Mary Hood Ritchie. For a time, Overall was a vocational high school teacher in Niagara Falls before returning to work as an engineer. He defeated William Limburg Houck

William Limburg Houck

William Limburg Houck was a Canadian politician.Born in Buffalo, New York, Houck was a coal dealer, fuel dealer, and merchant before being elected as the Liberal Party of Ontario candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1934, 1937, 1948, and 1951. Houck was Minister without Portfolio in...

in 1943 to win his seat in the assembly.