Horatio Clarence squatting

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Horatio Clarence squatting

Horatio Clarence Hocken (born October 12, 1857 in Toronto , Ontario , † February 18, 1937 ) was a Canadian politician and 36th mayor of Toronto .

Horatio Hocken began his professional career as a printer , editor and journalist . After working as a typesetter for the Toronto Globe , he was a foreman at the Toronto News printing plant . He led strikes in both newspapers and, with 20 others, founded the strike newspaper Evening Star , which is now Canada's largest circulation newspaper as the Toronto Star . He then left the star and became the city editor for News . In 1905 he bought the weekly newspaper The Orange Sentinel , the organ of the Orange Order .

Hocken's political career began in 1907 when he was elected to the control committee of the city ​​council , of which he was a member until 1911. From January 1912 to January 1915 he was mayor of Toronto. During his tenure, he supported the establishment of numerous parks in the city. He had public bathing establishments built; under his aegis, a sewage treatment plant was built and the municipal sewerage system expanded. Squatting ensured that all children in the slums were given free milk. Thanks to his reforms, the death rate from disease fell from 114 deaths per 100,000 population to 27. He also supported social housing .

After his tenure as mayor, he was first elected to parliament as a candidate for the Unionist Party in the 1917 general election. In the next general election in 1921 he was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada . Re-elections followed in 1925 and 1926 . He served uninterruptedly as a member from the 13th through the 16th Canadian Parliament and remained in federal politics until 1930. He was proposed to the Canadian Senate on December 30, 1933 and remained a member of the Senate until his death in 1937.

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  1. ↑ http://members.tripod.com/~Roughian/Hocken.html ( Memento from January 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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SURNAME Squat, Horatio Clarence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and 36th Mayor of Toronto
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1937