Max Saltsman
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Early life and education
Saltsman was born on 29 May 1921 in Toronto to Samuel and Sara (née Krier) Saltsman, gaining the nickname "Max" in childhood.[1] Saltsman attended schools in the Spadina area and left Central Technical School at 14 to work and support his family.[2] He earned high school credits through part-time studies after work.[3] Saltsman did not complete a university degree, but took correspondence courses while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and continued his education sporadically during his years in parliament.[3] During World War II, Saltsman served in France, the Netherlands, and Germany with the RCAF.[4] In 1947, he married Dorothy Gellman.[5] He was president of Galt Dry Cleaning Services and Eastern Coin Operated Enterprise.[5]
Career in politics
He was first elected to the House of Commons in a 1964 by-election following the death of MP Gordon Chaplin and was re-elected in the general elections of 1965, 1968, 1972, and 1974. Saltsman was the NDP critic for Finance and National Revenue from 1976 to 1977.[4] Saltsman drafted private member's bill C-249, 'An Act Respecting a Proposed Association Between Canada and the Caribbean Turks and Caicos Islands', proposing an association between Canada and the islands. The bill was never submitted to a vote.[6]
Before federal office, he was an alderman in Galt, Ontario from 1961 to 1964.[6] In 1982, Bill Davis, Premier of Ontario, appointed him to the province's Inflation Restraint Board.[7] Saltsman planned to return to municipal politics as a councillor-at-large for Cambridge in 1985 but cancelled these plans at a public news conference on 21 October, where he announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.[8]
Saltsman died in Toronto's Wellesley Hospital on 28 November 1985, two weeks after the Cambridge municipal election was held.[1] The Max Saltsman fonds are held at Library and Archives Canada.[9]
Electoral record
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