Norman Chamberlist

Norman (Norm) Chamberlist (1918 - 2001) was a Canadian politician, who served on Whitehorse City Council and the Yukon Territorial Council.[1]

Norman Chamberlist
Member of the Yukon Territorial Council for Whitehorse East
In office
1961–1961
Preceded byCharles Drury Taylor
Succeeded byHerbert Boyd
In office
1967–1974
Preceded byHerbert Boyd
Succeeded byriding dissolved
Personal details
Born1918
Died2001
ResidenceWhitehorse, Yukon
Occupationelectrical engineer, hotelier

First elected in the 1961 election,[1] he was forced to resign the seat within a few months after a firm in which he was part owner won a contract from the council, placing Chamberlist in a conflict of interest.[2] Herbert Boyd, the only candidate to file nomination papers when a by-election was called, was acclaimed to the seat in early 1962.[2]

Chamberlist stood for office again in the 1967 election, and won election that year.[3] In his speech on election night, he called on the Parliament of Canada to extend greater power to the territorial council.[3] In 1968, he was an outspoken opponent of the city of Whitehorse installing parking meters, even hiring a lawyer to represent all citizens of the city in challenging their parking tickets.[4]

Shortly before the 1970 election, Chamberlist opposed a federal government report on the Yukon, on the grounds that Canada had been granted administratorship rights over the territory but actual legal ownership still rested with the British Empire.[5]

He was reelected in the 1970 election, and was one of the first two councillors to be appointed to the new executive committee.[6] This gave him ministerial responsibilities over health and welfare in the territory.[7] Chamberlist and his fellow executive councillor Hilda Watson built a voting bloc with two other non-executive councillors, which gave them effective control over virtually all council business.[8] He was dropped from the executive committee in 1973, and was succeeded by Clive Tanner.[7]

He did not run for reelection to the territorial council in the 1974 election, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was a British Columbia Liberal Party candidate in Vancouver East in that province's 1975 election, but did not win.

He died in 2001.

References
  1. "Canadian Minister Hears Proposal for Road Extension". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. October 6, 1961. p. 3. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Week in West". Brandon Sun. January 22, 1962. p. 12. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "New-Look Council for the Yukon". Ottawa Journal. September 12, 1967. p. 12. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Whitehorse No Booster of Meters". San Antonio Express. November 29, 1968. p. 10. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Claim Yukon territory is not owned by Canada". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. July 3, 1970. p. 35. Retrieved July 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Other News from 1970. Hougen Group of Companies.
  7. Joyce Hayden, Yukon's Women of Power: Political Pioneers in a Northern Canadian Colony. Windwalker Press, 1999. ISBN 9780968626603.
  8. "Dissension racks council in Yukon". Montreal Gazette, April 4, 1972.


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