Charles A. Crosby

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Charles A. Crosby
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Mayor of Yarmouth
In office
1988–2008
Preceded byMarjorie McEachern
Succeeded byPhil Mooney
Personal details
Born (1937-10-31) October 31, 1937 (age 81)
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Political party Progressive Conservative

Charles A. (Tick) Crosby (born October 31, 1937) is a former mayor of the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He served from 1988 to 2008 and in 2004, he was also President of the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities.

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Town in Nova Scotia, Canada

Yarmouth is a port town located on the Bay of Fundy in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. Yarmouth is the shire town of Yarmouth County and is largest population centre in the region.

Political career

Crosby was first elected to Town Council in 1968 and was first elected as Mayor in 1988. During his early years in office, the town was experiencing a difficult time economically as it lost its largest employer, Dominion Textiles and in 1990 the Canadian National Railway ceased to operate. Crosby responded by advancing a plan to bring jobs to the town by turning the closed Rio Algom tin mine into a home for Halifax Regional Municipality's waste, but the plan met strong opposition from environmentalists. Since then, the centre of town was refurbished and the area became centered on the tourist trade.

The Dominion Textile Inc. or Domtex was a major Canadian textile manufacturer that was founded in 1905 and closed in 1998 when its remains were purchased by the American Polymer Group, at the time headed by Jerry Zucker.

Canadian National Railway railway company

Canadian National is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

Rio Algom was a mining corporation that was purchased by Billiton in 2000.

Notable accomplishments during Crosby's tenure as mayor included the construction of Mariners Centre arena, revitalization of the waterfront, improvements to the water and wastewater treatment systems, development of Starrs Road as a commercial district, and the construction of a new Town Hall.

Mariners Centre

The Mariners Centre is a multi-purpose and double ice surface arena in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It officially opened on November 28, 2001 and the building size is 65,000 square feet (6,000 m2). It is home to the Yarmouth Mariners of the Maritime Junior Hockey League. The facility hosted the 2005 Fred Page Cup and hosted the New York Islanders training camp in September, 2005 and the Islanders returned for their training camp in 2006 with their new head coach, Ted Nolan. The Mariners Centre hosted the World Junior A Challenge in November 2012 and 2013.

He was defeated in the 2008 municipal election by Phil Mooney. [1] On February 13, 2009, a tribute dinner was held for Crosby, where he was given a key to the town and Brooklyn Street was renamed Charles Crosby Drive. [2]

On April 29, 2010, Crosby announced that he would run for the Progressive Conservative nomination for the provincial byelection in the electoral district of Yarmouth. [3] On May 29, 2010, he won the nomination, [4] but he was defeated in the byelection held on June 22, 2010, finishing second to Liberal Zach Churchill. [5] [6]

Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia Canadian political party, moderate right-of-centre, based in Nova Scotia

The Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, commonly called the PC Party, is a moderate, centrist political party in Nova Scotia, Canada. They have been historically associated with the "Red Tory" wing of Canadian conservatism. The party is currently led by Pictou East MLA Tim Houston.

Yarmouth (provincial electoral district)

Yarmouth is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It consists of the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth and the town of Yarmouth. From 1867 to 1981, the district included all of Yarmouth County. In 1981, the riding was redistributed and the Municipality of Argyle received its own electoral district.

In 2012, Crosby ran again for mayor in the Nova Scotia municipal elections but he finished second with 23 percent of the vote. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mooney takes the mayor's seat; 3 incumbents lose". The Vanguard, October 19, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Sweet surprises for former mayor". The Vanguard, February 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Charles Crosby seeking PC nomination". The Vanguard, April 29, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Charles Crosby gets Yarmouth P.C. nomination". The Vanguard, May 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Liberals win 2 N.S. byelections". CBC News, June 22, 2010.
  6. ↑ "P.C. candidate calls it political career". The Vanguard, June 22, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Town's in the Mood". The Vanguard, October 20, 2012.
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