Ian MacLachlan Arrol

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

Ian MacLachlan Arrol
Member of Parliament
for York East
In office
1972–1974
Preceded bySteve Otto
Succeeded byDavid Collenette
Personal details
Born(1924-02-20)February 20, 1924
DiedJune 16, 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 76)
Political partyProgressive Conservative
ProfessionRadio announcer, teacher

Radio career

Arrol was a radio announcer in Vancouver and Calgary in the 1940s and 1950s until graduating from University of British Columbia 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.[1] 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 1948 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Medicine Hat. He finished a distant third, losing to longtime Social Credit incumbent John Robinson.[2]

Electoral record
1972 Canadian federal election: York East
Party Candidate Votes
  Progressive Conservative Ian MacLachlan Arrol 18,729
  Liberal Steve Otto 18,039
  New Democratic Party W. Thomas Beckett 10,876
  No affiliation Janina Klee 113
  No affiliation Harold Rowbottom 104
1974 Canadian federal election: York East
Party Candidate Votes
  Liberal David Collenette 20,682
  style="width: 
185px"|Progressive Conservative
 Ian MacLachlan Arrol 17,593
  New Democratic Party Kay MacPherson 9,818
Marxist–LeninistJohn Dennis150
CommunistDan Hammond128
  Independent Paul M. Miniato 121

References
  1. Obituary. Globe and Mail. June 21, 2000.
  2. "Medicine Hat Official Results 1948 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2010.


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