Dan Heap
|
The Reverend Dan Heap |
|
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Trinity—Spadina |
|
|
In office 1988–1993 |
|
| Preceded by | Riding established |
| Succeeded by | Tony Ianno |
| Member of Parliament for Spadina |
|
|
In office 1981–1988 |
|
| Preceded by | Peter Stollery |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Alderman, Toronto City Council | |
|
In office 1972–1981 |
|
| Preceded by | Horace Brown |
| Succeeded by | John Sewell |
| Metropolitan Toronto Councillor | |
|
In office 1974–1978 |
|
| Preceded by | William Archer |
| Succeeded by | Allan Sparrow |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Daniel James Macdonnell Heap September 24, 1925 Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Died | April 25, 2014 (aged 88) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Boomhour (m. 1950–2012, her death) |
| Children | 7 |
| Profession | Priest, labourer |
| Religion | Anglican |
Daniel James Macdonnell "Dan" (or "Don") Heap (September 24, 1925 – April 25, 2014) was a Canadian activist and politician. Heap served as a Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, a Toronto City Councillor, a political activist and an Anglican worker-priest. He represented the Toronto, Ontario, Canada riding of Spadina (after 1988 Trinity—Spadina) from 1981 to 1993 and Ward 6 on Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1981. As an activist he was involved in the peace movement, community issues around housing, homelessness, poverty and refugee rights among other social justice issues.
Heap was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba into a middle-class Winnipeg family, the second of four children. His father, Fred Heap, was a lawyer and his mother was a piano teacher. Heap's maternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister inspiring Heap, from a young age, to want to take up the same calling.
Heap was raised a Presbyterian in a family that was concerned about social causes. When he was 6, the family decided to boycott Japanese oranges to protest the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
For his last two years of highschool, Heap attended Upper Canada College on a scholarship, and then studied classics and philosophy at Queen's University.
A pacifist, Heap nevertheless joined the Canadian Army during World War II due to his opposition to Nazism, later saying "It wasn’t possible to be neutral in the face of Hitler". However, the war ended before he could be sent overseas.
...
Wikipedia