Harold Albrecht
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Harold Glenn Albrecht MP |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kitchener—Conestoga |
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Assumed office January 23, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Lynn Myers |
| Chair of the Standing Committee on The Environment |
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Assumed office 29 January 2013 |
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| Minister |
Peter Kent Leona Aglukkaq |
| Preceded by | Mark Warawa |
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October 15, 1949 Kitchener, Ontario |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) |
Betty Albrecht, 1952 - 2011 |
| Residence | Petersburg, Ontario |
| Profession | Dentist, farmer |
| Religion | Brethren in Christ |
Betty Albrecht, 1952 - 2011
Harold Glenn Albrecht (born October 15, 1949 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga. He defeated the incumbent Liberal MP, Lynn Myers, by just over 1000 votes in the 2006 federal election to gain a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.
Albrecht grew up in the riding in which he was elected and was educated in the Waterloo Region at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, and then at Waterloo Lutheran University (which is now Wilfrid Laurier University). Albrecht went on to complete his Doctorate of Dental Surgery at the University of Toronto.
Albrecht owns a hobby farm in between Petersburg and New Dundee, and he and his wife Betty were married for seven weeks less than 40 years. They have three children and nine grandchildren. On the night of May 2, 2011 Harold's wife suffered a brain hemorrhage while they were preparing for his election victory party, and died two days later in hospital.
In July 2013 Albrecht married Darlene McLean.
Albrecht owned a private dental practice in the Kitchener region for twenty-seven years. During his dentistry career, Albrecht also lent his professional skills on many short-term Christian mission trips with the Christian Medical-Dental Society in Honduras and Dominican Republic, as well as trips to Venezuela, Colombia, Zambia, Nepal and India.
Albrecht served as a school board trustee on the Waterloo County Board of Education from 1978 to 1982, and was the Chair of the Board from 1981 to 1982.
In 1999, Albrecht left his dentistry practice to found and pastor Pathway Community Church in the Doon area of Kitchener. The church started meeting in November of that year, with a small congregation of around 70 people. It also became the third Brethren in Christ church in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Albrecht pastored the church until 2005, when he announced a leave of absence to seek the Conservative Party nomination in his riding. When he won the nomination, he permanently resigned his leadership position from the Church.
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