Elmer Sandercock Explained

Elmer Sandercock
Office:Ontario MPP
Term Start:1948
Term End:1967
Predecessor:James Frederick Wilson
Successor:Riding abolished
Constituency:Hastings West
Party:Progressive Conservative
Birth Date:29 July 1894
Birth Place:Northumberland County, Ontario
Death Place:Belleville, Ontario
Occupation:Dairy producer
Spouse:Beatrice Evelyn Lightle (1918-1922)
Ethel Gene Cranston (1924)
Children:3

William Elmer Sandercock (July 29, 1894 – July 25, 1971) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1967 who represented the riding of Hastings West.

Background

Sandercock was born in Northumberland County, Ontario in 1894.[1] He was superintendent of a senior care facility in Belleville, Ontario for 20 years. He also served as president of the Belleville Agricultural Society for four years.[2] He married Beatrice Evelyn Lightle (born 1898) on April 25, 1918, in Northumberland County but she died in 1922.[3] [4] He remarried, on November 11, 1924, to Ethel Gene Cranston.[5] The marriage certificate describes Sandercock as a "widower" and "butter maker". He and Ethel raised two daughters and a son.[2]

Politics

First elected in the general election in 1948, Sandercock was re-elected in the general elections in 1951, 1955, 1959, and 1963.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] He served as a backbench supporter of the Leslie Frost and John Robarts governments and, during each term in office, he served on an average of nine Standing Committees. He retired from politics in 1967 at the age of 72. He died four years later in 1971.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Guide Parlementaire Canadien . Normandin, P.G. . Normandin, A.L. . 1965 . P.G. Normandin . 0315-6168 . 2014-10-09.
  2. News: Obituary: Elmer Sandercock: Tory served for 20 years in legislature . The Globe and Mail . July 26, 1971 . 3.
  3. Web site: Genealogical reference.
  4. Web site: Marriage Records for Beatrice Lightle and William Sandercock . Ancestry.com.
  5. Web site: Marriage Records for Ethel Cranston and William Sandercock . Ancestry.com.
  6. News: Canadian Press . How Ontario Electors Voted in all 90 Ridings . The Toronto Daily Star . June 8, 1948 . Toronto . 24.
  7. News: Canadian Press . Complete Ontario Vote . The Montreal Gazette . November 22, 1951 . Montreal. 4 .
  8. News: Canadian Press . Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies . The Ottawa Citizen . June 10, 1955 . Ottawa . 4 .
  9. News: Canadian Press . Complete Results of Ontario Voting by Constituencies . The Ottawa Citizen . June 12, 1959 . Ottawa . 26 .
  10. News: Canadian Press . 78 in Tory Blue Wave -- 23 Is All Grits Saved . The Windsor Star . September 26, 1963 . Windsor, Ontario . 25 .
  11. News: Deaths . The Globe and Mail . July 27, 1971 . 39.