Mitro Makarchuk

Mitro (Mac) Makarchuk (born 1931) was an Ontario politician. He served for three terms as the Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Brantford.

Early life

Makarchuk was born in Saskatchewan. In 1959, as a first year student at the University of Toronto, Makarchuk offered to underwrite a Canadian intercollegiate hockey championship between the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team and University of Saskatchewan Huskies as there was no national playoff between eastern and western Canadian regional hockey champions. The University of Saskatchewan accepted the offer but it was rejected by the University of Toronto.^[1][2] A national university hockey championship, the University Cup was ultimately established in 1963. He then moved to Ontario and worked as a journalist for the Brantford Expositor.

Political career

He was the New Democratic Party of Canada's candidate in the 1965 federal election but was defeated, coming in third place with 25% of the vote. He was nominated to be the provincial party's candidate in the 1967 provincial election and sought a leave of absence from the Expositor but was refused and then fired.^[3][4] He was elected to the Ontario legislature that year and served a term before being defeated in 1971. He was then was elected to Brantford city council as an alderman in 1972, and returned to the legislature in the 1975 and 1977 provincial elections. He then lost his seat in 1981^[5] to Phil Gillies. Makrachuk returned to Brantford City Council by winning a seat in the 1982 municipal election, serving for a three-year term as councilor for ward 4 before retiring from politics in 1985.

References

1. ^ "Varsity Playoff: Saskatoon Interested", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, February 2, 1959
2. ^ "Huskies Receiving New Trophy: Dominion Honors Claimed" Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 13, 1959
3. ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=pj1Ddn4HJM8C&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22mac+Makarchuk%22&source=bl&ots=-Jyr2XxO1S&sig=a2YOHqPLxlLYXSB6ZoPGUA998vo&hl=en&ei=dXRLTsWhGqeLsgKoo-XfCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22mac%20Makarchuk%22&f=false
4. ^ http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5832&context=opendissertations&sei-redir=1#search=%22co-operative%20commonwealth%20federation%20jarvis%22
5. ^ The Ukrainian Canadians: a history by Mykhaĭlo H. Marunchak, Publisher: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) in Canada, 1982.

External links

• Legislative biography

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