Harry Craig Parrott Explained

Harry Parrott
Office1:Ontario MPP
Term Start1:1971
Term End1:1981
Predecessor1:Gordon Innes
Successor1:Dick Treleaven
Constituency1:Oxford
Party:Progressive Conservative
Birth Date:30 November 1925
Birth Place:Mitchell, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Dentist

Harry Craig Parrott (November 30, 1925 – July 2, 2019) was a politician from Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1981 who represented the riding Oxford. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bill Davis.

Background

He was born in Mitchell, Ontario in 1925[1] and was educated in Mitchell and at the University of Toronto, receiving a D.D.S. in 1947. He was president of the Red Cross for Oxford County. He died at a hospital in Clinton, Ontario in 2019, aged 93.[2]

Politics

Parrott was a member of the Woodstock board of education, served on city council for Woodstock.

In 1971 he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Oxford. He defeated Liberal incumbent Gordon Innes by 3,024 votes.[3] He was re-elected in 1975 and 1977.[4] [5]

In October 1975 he was appointed as Minister of Colleges and Universities.[6] In August 1978, he was appointed as Minister of Environment.[7]

Cabinet positions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Canadian Parliamentary Companion. 1975.
  2. Web site: Obituary for Harry Craig Parrott | Brock & Visser Funeral Home.
  3. News: Stunning upsets as PC wave sweeps province . Pat . McNenly . Toronto Daily Star . October 22, 1971 . 1, 3.
  4. News: Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings . The Globe and Mail . September 19, 1975 . C12.
  5. News: Ontario provincial election results riding by riding . The Globe and Mail . June 10, 1977 . D9.
  6. News: Heavy on the brass . The Globe and Mail . October 8, 1975 . 7.
  7. News: McCague, Baetz are demoted in cabinet shuffle . Oziewicz . Stan . Yaffe . Barbara . The Globe and Mail . August 19, 1978 . 1, 2.