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John Havelock Parker, OC (February 2, 1929 – March 9, 2020) was the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from April 15, 1979 to July 31, 1989. He had previously been Deputy Commissioner of Northwest Territories from 1967 to 1979.

Biography

From 1959 until 1963 he became an alderman for the Yellowknife town council. In 1963, he became the mayor of Yellowknife, which he held until February 1967. While serving as mayor he was appointed to the Carrothers Commission which led to the formation of responsible government in the Northwest Territories and later the division that led to Nunavut.

His later work helped in defining the border between the NWT and Nunavut and his name was given to a protrusion known as Parker's Notch as well as Parker Line.

In 1986, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his "significant contributions to the evolution and development both of the municipal government of Yellowknife and of the territorial government."

Parker died March 9, 2020, in Sidney, British Columbia, where he had been living.

References

1. ^ "John Parker, N.W.T. commissioner who quietly shed power, dies at 91". CBC News. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
2. http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/ProvinceTerritory/LieutenantGovernors.aspx?Current=False&Province=
3. The International Who's Who 1992-93
4. "John Parker: modern-day architect of the new North". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
5. Order of Canada citation
6. "John Parker, former NWT commissioner and YK mayor, dead at 91". Cabin Radio. Retrieved March 13, 2020.

External links

• Government of Northwest Territories past Commissioners Archived 2018-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
• John Parker fonds. Northwest Territories Archives

v t e Commissioners of the Northwest Territories
Commissioner 1905–present	White Cory Rowatt Camsell Keenleyside Young Robertson Sivertz Hodgson Parker Norris Maksagak Marion Hansen Whitford Tuccaro Thom Kisoun
Deputy Commissioner 1921–present	Gibson Cunningham Brown Hodgson Parker Pilot Semmler Hanson Maksagak Marion Mains Whitford Thom Kisoun Kenny
Lieutenant Governor 1870–1905	McDougall Archibald Johnson Morris Laird Dewdney Royal Mackintosh Cameron Forget

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