- Bill Lyall
Bill (William) Lyall C.M. (b. 1941, Fort Ross) of Cambridge Bay,
Nunavut ,Canada is a former territorial level politician. Lyall was elected to the8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the 1975 election. [http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/1997-12/dec8_97lyal.html The Lyalls of Taloyoak] ]Lyall grew up in Taloyoak, known then as Spence Bay,
Northwest Territories , one of ten children of Ernie and Nipisha Lyall. He attended Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife and then a technology college inAlberta .After returning to Taloyak, he later moved to Cambridge Bay. In 1975, he was elected to the NWT Legislature. He ran again in the 1979 election, as did his younger brother Bobby Lyall, but the election was won by
Kane Tologanak .In 1978, Lyall was elected president of the Ikaluktutiak Co-op in Cambridge Bay, a position he still holds. By 1993, he had helped the Co-op grow from $300,000 in assets to $2.3 million. Later in the 1970s he became a director of Canadian Arctic Producers, a native owned arts and crafts wholesaler. In 1981, he helped form the
Arctic Cooperative , a merger between the Canadian Arctic Co-operative Federation and Canadian Arctic Producers. [http://www.naaf.ca/html/w_lyall_e.html National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation] ] He is the current president of the Arctic Cooperative, a position he has held for several years, and represents the communities of Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak, Kugaaruk (all in Nunavut) and Ulukhaktok (Northwest Territories). [ [http://www.arcticco-op.com/about-acl-directors.htm Arctic Cooperative] ]In 1992, he was awarded the
125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and in 1994 he won the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for business. In 2003, he was made a member of theOrder of Canada in recognition of his work with the Arctic Cooperative. [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=8745 Order of Canada] ]Lyall was also vice-chair of the
Nunavut Implementation Commission .References
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* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-1021-5751/politics_economy/elections_nwt/clip4 Campaigning on brotherly love from CBC] , a video clip of Bill and Bobby Lyall
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