Arnold McCallum explained

Arnold McCallum
Birth Date:23 April 1931
Birth Place:Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death Place:Digby, Nova Scotia
Constituency:Slave River
Term Start:1975
Term End:1987
Successor:Jeannie Marie-Jewell
Alma Mater:Acadia University
Party:non-partisan
consensus government
Spouse:Eileen
Children:3
Occupation:sportsperson, educator

Arnold James McCallum (April 23, 1931 – May 25, 2008) was a former territorial level politician. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories legislature from 1975 until 1987.

McCallum was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election, winning the new Slave River electoral district. He was re-elected to a second term in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. In his second term McCallum became the first Minister of the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation in 1982. He served that portfolio until 1983.[1] He ran for his third and final term in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. He served out his final term and did not return when the legislature was dissolved in 1987.

He died peacefully in 2008.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Northwest Territories Housing Corporation . NWT Culture and Heritage Division . September 16, 1996 . Janice Brum . 2007-09-23 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060714133601/http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/visitorinfo/factsheets/executivecouncil.html . July 14, 2006 .
  2. Web site: Arnold James Mccallum. 2008. InMemoriam.ca. 1 July 2015.