Ian MacLachlan Arrol (February 20, 1924 – June 16, 2000) was Member of Parliament for the federal riding of York East, elected as a Progressive Conservative in the

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-led resurgence of 1972. He was defeated in the Liberal sweep of 1974.

Radio career

Arrol was a radio announcer in

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and

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in the 1940s and 1950s until graduating from

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and teachers college, teaching in Vancouver in the early 1960s and for the Scarborough Board of Education (at Woburn Collegiate Institute) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Obituary. Globe and Mail. June 21, 2000. He also was a reporter with the Daily Colonist in Victoria BC in the mid-1960s.

Political career

Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party: he ran as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate in the

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in the electoral district of

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. He finished a distant third, losing to longtime Social Credit incumbent John Robinson.

Electoral record

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* 1924 births 2000 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub