Paul MacEwan
| Paul MacEwan | |
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| MLA for Cape Breton Nova | |
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In office October 13, 1970 – August 5, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Percy Gaum |
| Succeeded by | Gordie Gosse |
| Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly | |
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In office June 28, 1993 – November 18, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Russell |
| Succeeded by | Wayne Gaudet |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 8, 1943 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Political party | Liberal, NDP, Cape Breton Labour Party, Independent |
| Residence | Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia |
| Occupation | teacher |
Paul MacEwan (born April 8, 1943) is a former politician in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and long-time member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
He is the son of Horace Frederick MacEwan and was educated at the Sydney Academy, the Nova Scotia Teacher's College, Saint Francis Xavier University, Mount Allison University, and Cape Breton University, from which he holds a B.A. degree. He then worked as a teacher in Sydney.
MacEwan was elected first as a candidate of the social democratic Nova Scotia New Democratic Party in the 1970 provincial election. He ran in Cape Breton Nova, a heavily blue collar riding that was home to the Sydney Steel plant and many coal miners. During his first term as MLA, MacEwan would write Miners and Steelworkers: Labour in Cape Breton, a history of union activities and political activism in the area, published in 1976. He is also the author of Confederation and the Maritimes which came out later in 1976, and The Akerman Years: Jeremy Akerman and the Nova Scotia NDP, 1965-1980, published in 1980.
MacEwan was closely associated with the work of Jeremy Akerman, who served as Leader of the Nova Scotia NDP from 1968 to 1980. Akerman had won the party leadership by four votes in 1968, at a convention at which MacEwan persuaded eight youth delegates previously uncommitted, to support Alkerman. He and Akerman were the first two NDP MLAs elected in the history of Nova Scotia, in the provincial election of October 13, 1970, which saw the PCs defeated after fourteen years in power, and replaced by the Liberals headed by Gerald Regan. During the years of Akerman and MacEwan, the NDP advanced by one seat in each election contested, and had four MLAs elected by 1978.
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