Stuart McCall | |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1942 |
Birth Place: | Manchester, England |
Death Place: | Zeballos, British Columbia, Canada |
Residence: | Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |
Office1: | Member of the Yukon Territorial Council for Pelly River |
Term Start1: | 1974 |
Term End1: | 1978 |
Predecessor1: | first member |
Successor1: | riding dissolved |
Party: | Independent → New Democratic Party |
Occupation: | miner, labour unionist |
Stuart McCall (February 11, 1942 - January 26, 2002)[1] was a Canadian politician who served on the Yukon Territorial Council, representing the electoral district of Pelly River from 1974 to 1978.[2]
Originally from Manchester, England, McCall moved to Canada as a young adult.[2] He settled in Faro, Yukon, working in the local mines and rising to become a leader in the labour union local.[2] He was elected to the territorial council in the 1974 election, winning the seat by just ten votes over Paul White.[3] In the legislature, he was particularly prominent as a defender of labour rights, particularly when workers in Faro's mines staged a wildcat strike.[2] Despite their significantly different ideologies, however, he was a close friend of council colleague Ken McKinnon, with both men frequently dining with each other's families when the council was in session.[2]
In the 1978 election, the first conventional partisan election to the new Legislative Assembly of Yukon, McCall ran as a Yukon New Democratic Party candidate in the new electoral district of Faro, but was defeated by independent candidate Maurice Byblow.[2] He left the territory in 1980, moving to Zeballos, British Columbia, to take a job as foreman in the municipal public works department.[2] He held that job until 1992, when he retired to work for himself as an independent contractor.[2] During his time in Zeballos, he also spent eight years as a trustee on the town's school district board.[2]
He died on July 27, 2002, at his home in Zeballos.[2]
|-| Independent| Stuart McCall| align="right"| 187| align="right"| 35.68| align="right"| - | Independent| Paul White| align="right"| 177| align="right"| 33.77| align="right"| - | Independent| Barry Redfern| align="right"| 160| align="right"| 30.53| align="right"| - |-! align=left colspan=3|Total! align=right| 524! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| -
|-| Independent| Maurice Byblow| align="right"| 361| align="right"| 60.1%| align="right"| - |-| NDP| Stuart McCall| align="right"| 231| align="right"| 38.9%| align="right"| - |-! align=left colspan=3|Total! align=right| 594! align=right| 100.0%! align=right| -