Charles Granger

Charles Ronald McKay Granger PC OC ( born August 12, 1912 in Catalina, Newfoundland; † August 22, 1995 ) was a Canadian journalist and politician of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Life

Granger worked after school as a journalist and began his political career when he was first elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the general election in May 1958 the electoral district of Grand Falls - White Bay - Labrador as a member of the House and this first served until August 1966. During this time he was at first, between February 1964 and April 1965 Chairman of the Standing House of Commons Committee of Maritime and Fisheries, July 1966 to January of Parliamentary Secretary of the Minister of Fisheries.

In August 1968, he resigned his seat in the House after he became minister for the affairs of Labrador in the province of Newfoundland government of Prime Minister Joey Smallwood and retained this office until 1967. At the same time he was from September 1966 to 1967 a member of the House of Representatives of Newfoundland and Labrador for the electoral district of Gander.

After a little more than a year Granger left the province of politics again, however, and was appointed in September 1967 by Prime Minister Lester Pearson as Minister without Portfolio in the 19th Federal Cabinet. At the same time he was elected at a by-election ( By-election ) in November 1967 in the constituency of Bonavista - Twillingate back into the lower house. The Office of the Minister without Portfolio, he also took over the following 20 federal cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, but lost it on July 5, 1968 after he had suffered a defeat in the constituency Gander - Twillingate in the general election of 25 June 1968, not was re- elected to the House.

On 19 October 1994 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. With the award of his efforts were rewarded in the campaign for the integration of Newfoundland and Labrador in the Canadian Confederation in 1949. At the same time, he shaped the history of his province and Canada for more than five decades through his work as a journalist. In addition, his commitment to the rights of fishermen and his work for social change in provincial and federal politics as well as appreciated and his commitment to economic, social and cultural activities in their environment was.