Roy Erasmus is a politician and lawyer from

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...

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. He is a former member of the

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest hyphenated as North-West until 1906), is the legislature and the seat of government of Northwest Territories in Canada. It is a uni ...

. Erasmus was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the

1995 Northwest Territories general election File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

. Erasmus' electoral district was abolished at the end of his first term and he ran for re-election in the new

Weledeh Weledeh (or Yellowknife - Weledeh) was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, or Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories (with Northwest ...

electoral district. He was easily defeated by

Joe Handley Joseph "Joe" L. Handley, MLA (born August 9, 1943), is a former teacher, politician and civil servant and was the tenth premier of the Northwest Territories. Early life Handley was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan in 1943. Prior to moving to ...

in the

1999 Northwest Territories general election The 1999 Northwest Territories general election was held on December 6, 1999. This was the first election under the new boundaries that were created when Nunavut was carved out of the Northwest Territories. 19 members were elected, five fewer than ...

. Following his election loss to Joe Handley, Erasmus worked as a Director for the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in the Government of the Northwest Territories for 6 years. In September 2006, Erasmus entered the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Ruth ...

. He was awarded a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), with a major in Public Administration, in the fall of 2008. He has been an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Education and Culture for the Government of the Northwest Territories since September 2008.

External links

NWT Votes 2003 Weledeh Profile
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Living people People from Yellowknife Year of birth missing (living people) {{NorthwestTerritories-politician-stub