High Park (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

High Park was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

in the west end of the city of Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, in the province

Provinces and territories of Canada

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of Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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. It was represented in the Canadian

Canada

House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1935 to 1979.

History

The federal riding was created in 1933 from the former riding of Toronto—High Park

Toronto—High Park

Toronto—High Park was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the west end of the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario...

.

It was initially defined to consist of ward seven of the city of Toronto and the part of ward six lying west of a line drawn from north to south along Indian Road, east along Howard Park Avenue, and south along Sunnyside Avenue to Lake Ontario.

In 1952, it was redefined to include the Ellis Court Apartments.

In 1966, it was redefined to consist of the part of Metropolitan Toronto

Metropolitan Toronto

The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was a senior level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area from 1954 to 1998. It was created out of York County and was a precursor to the later concept of a regional municipality, being formed of smaller municipalities but having more...

bounded on the south by Lake Ontario, and on the east, north and west by a line drawn north along Parkside Drive, west along Bloor Street West, north on Pacific Avenue, east along Canadian Pacific Railway, north along Keele Street, west along Rogers Road, northwest along Weston Road, west along Black Creek, south along Jane Street, southwest along Dundas Street, southeast along Mimico Creek, east along The Queensway, and southeast along the Humber River to the shore of Lake Ontario.

The name of the electoral district was changed in 1972 to High Park—Humber Valley.

The electoral district was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Davenport

Davenport (electoral district)

Davenport is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. Its population in 2001 was 111,705.-Geography:...

, Etobicoke Centre

Etobicoke Centre (provincial electoral district)

Etobicoke Centre is a provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.It was created in 1999 from parts of Etobicoke West and Etobicoke—Humber....

, Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park

Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979.Peggy Nash of the New Democratic Party was elected the Member of Parliament for the riding on May 2, 2011....

and Etobicoke—Lakeshore

Etobicoke—Lakeshore

Etobicoke—Lakeshore is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

ridings.

High Park

Alexander James Anderson
Alexander James Anderson
Alexander James Anderson was a Canadian politician, barrister and lawyer. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the historical Conservative Party in 1925 representing Toronto—High Park where he was re-elected in 1926 and in 1930. He was also re-elected in the new riding of...

, Conservative, (1935–1945)
William Alexander McMaster
William Alexander McMaster
William Alexander McMaster, Q.C. was a Canadian parliamentarian and lawyer.McMaster was born near London, Ontario and attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto from which he graduated in 1902 and qualified as a lawyer...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

, (1945–1949)
Pat Cameron, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

, (1949–1957)
John Kucherepa
John Kucherepa
John William Kucherepa was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.Kucherepa was born in Toronto, Ontario where he attended the Humberside Collegiate Institute and Western High School of Commerce in his youth...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

, (1957–1962)
Pat Cameron, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

, (1962–1968)
Walter Deakon
Walter Deakon
Walter Cyril Deakon was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta and became a barrister, solicitor and professional engineer by career....

, Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

, (1968–1972)

High Park—Humber Valley

Otto Jelinek
Otto Jelinek
Otto John Jelinek, PC is a businessman, former figure skater, and Canadian politician. Jelinek's family fled to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the beginning of the Cold War.-Figure skating career:...

, Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

, (1972–1979)

Federal election results

|-

|ANDERSON, Alexander James
|align="right"|10,949
|-

|MCRUER, James Chalmers
|align="right"|8,357
|-

|REID, Minerva Ellen
|align="right"|4,396
|-

|LEBOURDAIS, Donat Marc
|align="right"|3,574
|}
|-

|ANDERSON, Alexander James
|align="right"|12,266
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"|12,061
|-

|COBURN, Carroll Langford
|align="right"| 1,777
|}
|-

|MCMASTER, William Alexander
|align="right"| 12,992
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 11,379
|-

|TEMPLE, William Horace

William Horace Temple

William Horace Temple , nicknamed "Temperance Bill" or "Temperance Willie", was a Canadian democratic socialist politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. As a youth he worked for the railway. During World War I, and World War II he was a soldier in the Royal Naval...

|align="right"|5,612
|}
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"|12,216
|-

|MCMASTER, William Alexander
|align="right"| 11,726
|-

|PETHICK, Clarence William
|align="right"| 6,671
|}
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 10,032
|-

|DAVIDSON, William Cedric
|align="right"| 8,526
|-

|PETHICK, Clarence William
|align="right"| 3,847
|-

|HOPWOOD, Victor George
|align="right"|572
|}
|-

|KUCHEREPA, John W.
|align="right"| 11,034
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 8,767
|-

|PETHICK, Clarence William
|align="right"|3,657
|-

|DU MARESQ, Earl
|align="right"| 498
|}
|-

|KUCHEREPA, John W.
|align="right"| 14,289
|-

|CAMERON, Allan John Patrick
|align="right"| 9,586
|-

|PETHICK, Clarence W.
|align="right"| 3,256
|-

|DU MARESQ, Earl
|align="right"| 237
|}
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 11,388
|-

|KUCHEREPA, John W.
|align="right"| 9,089
|-

|WILSON, Tom
|align="right"| 4,903
|-

|PERT, Norman
|align="right"| 348
|}
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 13,034
|-

|STEPHENS, James H.
|align="right"| 7,045
|-

|MAYS, Andrew W.
|align="right"| 4,425
|-

|MALNYCHUK, William
|align="right"| 420
|-

|MIDDLETON, Watson
|align="right"| 203
|}
|-

|CAMERON, Pat
|align="right"| 11,171
|-

|WHITEACRE, Bill
|align="right"| 6,652
|-

|BARRETT, Anne
|align="right"| 4,650
|}
|-

|DEAKON, Walter
|align="right"| 16,260
|-

|MCKAY, Win
|align="right"|10,743
|-

|STEVENSON, Don
|align="right"|8,131
|-

|COWAN, Ralph B.
|align="right"|2,895
|-

|FORMOSA, Henry
|align="right"| 215
|}
|-

|JELINEK, Otto
|align="right"|18,329
|-

|DEAKON, Walter
|align="right"| 16,426
|-

|CHMIELEWSKI, Edward J.
|align="right"| 8,197
|-

|WEIR, John
|align="right"| 194
|-

|KALTURNYK, Kenneth
|align="right"| 133
|}
|-

|JELINEK, Otto
|align="right"|17,389
|-

|MCBRIDE, Murray
|align="right"| 17,134
|-

|REYNOLDS, Bill
|align="right"| 5,811
|-

|HILL, Elizabeth
|align="right"| 213
|-

|BLAKE, Michael A.
|align="right"| 148
|-

|NUGENT, Jim
|align="right"| 73
|}

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Library of Parliament
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Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Library of Parliament
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History

High Park

High Park—Humber Valley

Federal election results

See also

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