Eric Stefanson (8 January 1913 – 3 February 1977) was a
Progressive Conservative party member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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. He was born in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba and became an insurance agent and merchant by career.
Stefanson attended public school in
Vestfold then high school in Winnipeg at
Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute. From 1950 to 1957, he was a municipal councillor for
Gimli and served for four years as deputy mayor there.
He was first elected at Manitoba's
Selkirk riding in the
1958 general election then re-elected for successive terms in the
1962
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and
1965 federal elections. In the
1968 election he was defeated at Selkirk by
Ed Schreyer
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Schreyer was born and educated in Manitoba, and was first electe ...
of the
New Democratic Party
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After leaving federal politics, Stefanson became general manager of the Interlake Development Corporation in 1970, where he served until his sudden death in 1977.
["Deaths and Funerals", ''Winnipeg Free Press'', Saturday, 5 February 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada]
His son,
Eric Stefanson
Eric Stefanson (born October 14, 1950) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the cabinet of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1991 to 1999, and was a member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1990 to 2000. His fathe ...
, was a member of Manitoba's legislature.
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1913 births
1977 deaths
Canadian people of Icelandic descent
Manitoba municipal councillors
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba
Politicians from Winnipeg
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
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