Birth Name: | Robert Hector MacQuarrie |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1935 |
Birth Place: | Edson, Alberta, Canada |
Death Place: | Alberta, Canada |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories |
Constituency: | Yellowknife Centre |
Term Start: | 1979 |
Term End: | 1987 |
Successor: | Brian Lewis |
Office2: | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories |
Term Start2: | 1979 |
Term End2: | 1987 |
Predecessor2: | David Searle |
Successor2: | Donald Morton Stewart |
Party: | Non-partisan Consensus government |
Occupation: | Educator |
Robert Hector MacQuarrie (January 10, 1935 – October 20, 2021) was a politician and teacher from Northwest Territories, Canada.[1] [2]
MacQuarrie was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly for one year. He resigned from his post as speaker because he wanted to participate in debates in the Legislature.
MacQuarrie was re-elected in Yellowknife Centre in the 1983 Northwest Territories general election. As chairman of the Special Committee on Unity, and later as vice-chairman of the Western Constitutional Forum, he played a significant role in the division of the Northwest Territories.