Hazel McCallion
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Hazel McCallion CM |
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Hazel McCallion in 2010
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| 5th Mayor of Mississauga | |
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In office December 1, 1978 – November 30, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Searle |
| Succeeded by | Bonnie Crombie |
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Hazel Journeaux February 14, 1921 Port Daniel, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Sam McCallion (m. 1951; d. 1997) |
| Children | 3 |
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Hazel McCallion, CM (née Journeaux; born February 14, 1921) is a Canadian politician and businesswoman who served as the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario from 1978 until 2014. She is the first and current Chancellor of Sheridan College.
McCallion was first elected in November 1978, and is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, having served for 36 years at the time of her retirement in 2014. She was a successful candidate in 12 municipal elections, having been acclaimed twice and re-elected 10 other times. Her supporters gave her the nickname "Hurricane Hazel" because of her outspoken political style.
McCallion was born in the community of Port Daniel on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father, Herbert Armand Journeaux (1879–1944), owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Amanda Maude Travers (1876–1955), was a homemaker and ran the family farm. The family also comprised two older sisters and two older brothers. After graduating from Quebec High School, she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but her family could not afford it. After beginning her career in Montreal with the Canadian Kellogg company, she was transferred to Toronto in 1942, where she helped set up the local office. McCallion left the business world in 1967 to devote her life to a career in politics.
She met her future husband, Sam McCallion (1923–97), at an Anglican Church congregation in Toronto in 1951; they married on September 29 of that year. As a marriage present from McCallion’s in-laws, a piece of land was given to the newlyweds near the village of Streetsville, Ontario, to which they moved in December 1951. McCallion has three children. In 1997, her husband died of Alzheimer's disease. Before entering politics, she and her husband founded The Streetsville Booster in 1964.
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