John Yaremko

John Yaremko

John Yaremko (1918 – ) was the first Ukrainian-Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was initially elected in the 1951 provincial election as a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He served the riding of Bellwoods from 1951 until 1975.

He was born in Welland, Ontario and educated in Hamilton, at the University of Toronto and at Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1946 and named a Queen's Counsel in 1953. Yaremko served in the provincial cabinet as Minister Without Portfolio in 1958, Minister of Transport from 1958 to 1960, Provincial Secretary and Registrar from 1960 to 1966, Minister of Public Welfare from 1966 to 1967, Minister of Social and Family Services from 1967 to 1971, Provincial Secretary and Minister of Citizenship from 1971 to 1972 and Solicitor General from 1972 to 1974.

Yaremko served as chairman for the appeals tribunal for commercial liquor licenses for the province of Ontario from 1976 to 1985.

External links

* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1993 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
* [http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=yaccato&t=21884&d=2063 Entry in Canadian Who's Who]


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