Mayors of Places in the Northwest Territories - Vince Steen, Michael Ballantyne, Dennis Bevington, James Arreak, Jackie Jacobson (Paperback)

Chapters: Vince Steen, Michael Ballantyne, Dennis Bevington, James Arreak, Jackie Jacobson, Gordon Van Tighem. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vince Steen (1941 Aklavik, Northwest Territories - February 3, 2007) was a politician. He served as a municipal councilor of Tuktoyaktuk and later became mayor. Afterwards he was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. Prior to politics he was also civil servant, heavy equipment operator and a licensed watercraft operator. Steen was born in 1941 in Aklavik in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories. He lived his whole life in northern Canada. Steen was educated at a local residential school in his hometown of Aklavik for seven years. He went to post secondary education at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. At the vocational school Steen attained his journey man certificate as a heavy equipment operator. Steen began his political career serving on local community boards, serving a number of posts through the 1970's and 80's. He first joined the Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and trappers Committee in 1973 and served as a regular board member and chairman of the board for various periods until 1989. In 1974 he was chairman of the NWT Game Council. Steen was appointed in 1975 to the Federal Fisheries and Oceans Advisory Committee on Whales and Whaling serving until 1977. He became Vice President of the Inuit Taparitsat of Canada in 1976 and served that post until 1978. The pinnacle of Steen's municipal career came when he was elected mayor of Tuktoyaktuk for a year in 1980. Four years later be became a board member of the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation. His last board posting was as Chief of the Inuvialuit Land Administration Committee for the Inuvialuit ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1328616