Walter Dinsdale
Walter Gilbert Dinsdale PC DFC (born April 3, 1916 in Brandon , Manitoba , † November 20, 1982 ) was a Canadian politician of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) who was a member of the House of Commons for 31 years until his death and between 1960 and 1963 Minister for Northern Affairs and Natural Resources and briefly Acting Minister for Mining and Technical Assessment in 1962 in the 18th Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker .
Life
University degree, World War II and Member of the House of Commons
Dinsdale was the son of George Dinsdale , who served on the Manitoba Legislative Assembly from 1932 until his death in 1943 . After attending school, he himself completed an undergraduate degree at McMaster University , which he completed in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts (MA). During the Second World War , he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1941 and was a member of the 410 Mosquito Night Fighter Squadron until the end of the war . For his military services he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). After the end of the war he was a lecturer in social work at Brandon College . A simultaneous postgraduate study at the University of Toronto , he finished in 1951 with a Master of Arts (MA).
Dinsdale's political career began when he was elected as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party on June 25, 1951 in a by-election in the Brandon constituency for the first time as a Member of the House of Commons, which he served for more than 31 years until his death on November 20, 1982 belonged to. Since the general election on August 10, 1953 , he represented the newly created constituency of Brandon-Souris after a merger .
After the PC won the general election on June 10, 1957 , Dinsdale was on August 19, 1957 Parliamentary Assistant to the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs Alfred Johnson Brooks and held this junior ministerial post until February 1, 1958. He was then between May 12, 1958 and July 18, 1959 Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs and then took over from November 18, 1959 to October 10, 1960 again as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister for Veterans Affairs Alfred Johnson Brooks.
Federal minister and opposition years
On October 11, 1960, he was appointed to the 18th Cabinet by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as part of a cabinet reshuffle and was Minister for Northern Affairs and Natural Resources until the end of Diefenbaker's tenure on April 21, 1963. At the same time he acted between October 10 and December 27, 1961 as the acting minister for mining and technical assessment.
After his party's defeat in the general election of April 8, 1963 , Dinsdale acted as spokesman for the opposition PC faction on northern affairs between 1963 and September 1968 and as spokesman for natural resources from 1966 to 1967 and also as deputy spokesman between 1966 and 1968 for national defense. Subsequently, from September 1968 to December 1969, he was initially the opposition spokesman for the Office of State Secretary of Canada and then from 1969 to December 1972 spokesman for the PC group for communications and mail, and between December 1969 and 1970 spokesman for consumer and corporate affairs. He also acted from December 5, 1972 to September 9, 1974 as the opposition spokesman for utilities and services, and from December 1972 to October 1973 as the spokesman for public works. He was also spokesman for the opposition PC group for Post between October 1973 and 1979.
Most recently, Dinsdale held the position of Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee for People with Disabilities from April 14, 1980 until his death.
Web links and sources
- CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dinsdale, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dinsdale, Walter Gilbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandon , Manitoba |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1982 |