Clarence Baker (July 7, 1928 – October 15, 2006) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1988, representing the riding of Lac Du Bonnet for the New Democratic Party. [1]
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The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the Queen of Canada in Right of Manitoba, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba form the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post voting. The Manitoba Legislative Building is located in central Winnipeg, at the meeting point of the Wolseley and Fort Rouge constituencies.
The son of Anton and Pauline Baker, Baker was born in the municipality of Cromwell, Manitoba, and worked as a farmer before entering political life. In 1951, he married Ilene Weidman. [2] He was a delegate to the Manitoba Pool Elevators for thirty years, and was named Manitoba Farmer of the Year in 1984. [2] Baker served as Reeve of Brokenhead from 1976 to 1998, [3] was a councillor for two, and served on the Union of Manitoba Municipalities for five years. He also served on the local hospital board for nine years, including three years as chair. [4]
Brokenhead is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The separately administered town of Beausejour lies within the borders of the municipality, south of its centre.
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people. Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape, stretching from the northern oceanic coastline to the southern border with the United States. The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut to the north, and Northwest Territories to the northwest, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.
In the provincial election of 1986, Baker was elected to the Manitoba legislature for Lac Du Bonnet, [1] defeating Darren Praznik of the Progressive Conservative Party by 302 votes. [5] He was not appointed to the cabinet of Howard Pawley, [1] and was defeated by Praznik in the 1988 election. [5]
Darren Thomas Praznik is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a prominent cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon, and considered running for the party's leadership in 2000.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba is a right-of-centre political party in Manitoba, Canada and the only right-leaning party in the province. It is currently the governing party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, after winning a substantial majority in the 2016 provincial election.
Baker later returned to municipal politics, and was re-elected as reeve of Brokenhead. He died in 2006.