Clifford George (Cliff) Pilkey (27 July 1922 – 17 November 2012) was a Canadian politician and trade union leader.Shanahan, Noreen
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'', 11 December 2012. Pilkey was an autoworker and

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leader in

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's Local 222 before being elected as an Alderman on

City Council. First elected in 1963, he served as an Alderman until the end of 1966. Pilkey was then elected to the

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as the

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MPP for

in the 1967 provincial election defeating a former fellow Alderman, Albert Walker. He served one term before being defeated in the 1971 provincial election. In 1976, he was elected president of the

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. He retired from the OFL in 1986. Pilkey was given a Centennial Medal of Canada in 1967, was invested with the

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on 11 April 1990 and received the

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on 18 June 2012. His son, Allan Pilkey, was NDP MPP for Oshawa from 1990 to 1995. Cliff Pilkey died in hospital in

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on 17 November 2012, aged 90, after a long illness.

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* 1922 births 2012 deaths Members of the Order of Ontario Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Trade unionists from Ontario Oshawa city councillors 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario {{Ontario-MPP-stub