Ovide Alakannuark Explained

Ovide Alakannuark
Birth Date:25 December 1938[1]
Birth Place:Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada
Death Place:Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Canada
Office:MLA for Akulliq
Term Start:1999
Term End:2004
Successor:Steve Mapsalak
Party:non-partisan
consensus government

Ovide Alakannuark (December 25, 1938 – October 7, 2019) was a Canadian territorial level politician from Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories (now Kugaaruk, Nunavut).[2] He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 2004.

Alakannuark was elected in the 1999 Nunavut general election. He defeated candidate Steve Mapsalak by just 25 votes to win the Akulliq electoral district. He only served a single term in the Legislature deciding not to run for re-election when it was dissolved in 2004.[3]

He attempted a return to politics running in rerun for the Akulliq district finishing a distant third on March 2, 2009.[4] The two front runners Steve Mapsalak and John Ningark had also served as MLAs in the Nunavut Legislature. He died on October 7, 2019, at the age of 80.[5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. 1972. 9780787660482.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=NHQnAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Alakannuark,+Ovide+%22 The Canadian Parliamentary Guide
  3. Web site: Nunavut Votes 2004 Akulliq Profile. CBC News . 2007-09-26.
  4. Web site: Official Candidates List. 2008-09-27. Elections Nunavut. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081029201812/http://www.elections.nu.ca/i18n/docs/cand/cand_eng.pdf. 2008-10-29.
  5. https://nnsl.com/nunavut-news/speaker-of-legislative-assembly-pays-homage-to-the-late-ovide-alakannuark/ Speaker of legislative assembly pays homage to the late Ovide Alakannuark
  6. https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/ovide-alakannuak-passes-on/ Ovide Alakannuak passes on