Peter Heenan
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The Honourable Peter Heenan PC |
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| MPP for Kenora | |
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In office October 20, 1919 – October 18, 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Harold Arthur Clement Machin |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Pattulo Earngey |
| Member of Parliament for Kenora—Rainy River | |
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In office October 29, 1925 – July 3, 1934 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Bathgate McKinnon |
| MPP for Kenora | |
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In office August 7, 1934 – June 30, 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Earl Hutchinson |
| Succeeded by | William Manson Docker |
| Minister of Labour for Canada | |
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In office September 25, 1926 – August 7, 1930 |
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| Preceded by | George Burpee Jones |
| Succeeded by | Gideon Decker Robertson |
| Minister of Lands and Forests for Ontario | |
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In office July 10, 1934 – May 27, 1941 |
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| Preceded by | William Finlayson |
| Succeeded by | Norman Otto Hipel |
| Minister of Labour for Ontario | |
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In office June 14, 1938 – September 2, 1938 |
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| Preceded by | Morrison Mann MacBride |
| Succeeded by | Norman Otto Hipel |
| Minister of Labour for Ontario | |
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In office May 27, 1941 – August 17, 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Norman Otto Hipel |
| Succeeded by | Charles Daley |
| Personal details | |
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February 19, 1875 Tullaree, near Newcastle, County Down, Ireland |
| Died | May 12, 1948 (aged 73) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party |
Labour Party of Canada (to 1926) Liberal Party of Canada Ontario Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Fawcett |
| Profession | coal miner, diver, locomotive engineer, union leader |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Peter Heenan, PC (February 19, 1875 – May 12, 1948) was a Canadian union leader and politician, and also served as a cabinet minister at the federal and provincial levels.
Born in Tullaree, near Newcastle, County Down, Ireland, Heenan worked as a pit boy at St Helen's Colliery in Cumberland, where he tested work on the mine's railways, and then worked on the Costa Rica Railway in Central America. An attack of yellow fever forced Heenan to move to Canada in 1902, where he first worked on a Western ranch, and then as a locomotive engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway on the run between Winnipeg and Kenora. The experience he had acquired in Costa Rica as a diver also proved useful when he was called to help out in a train wreck just outside Kenora, where the locomotive had plunged down underwater.
Heenan became involved in the labour movement in Northwestern Ontario, becoming its most prominent leader by the beginning of World War I. He also became an alderman on Kenora's town council, serving for five years, and was also chairman of the local public utilities commission for two years.
Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Labour candidate for the riding of Kenora in the 1919 election, Heenan was re-elected in 1923. When the Legislature was not in session, he would resume driving locomotives.
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