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28 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, June 14, 1962 Ontario Playing Key Role In June 18 Federal Voting TORONTO (CP) --_ Simple arithmetic points up Ontario's key role in the June 18 federal election. The province elects 85 mem- bers to the 265-seat House of Commons, nearly one-third of the total. That compares with 75 from Quebec, 33 from the four Atlantic provinces and 72 from the West including Yukon and Northwest Territories. All four political parties, act- ing on the conviction of their expressed beliefs that Ontario may prove decisive in this elec- tion, are battling vigorously for the support of its voters, from descendants of United Empire Loyalists to recently - arrived European immigrants. Conservatives and Liberals have entered candidates in all 84 constituencies voting June 18 --election in the 85th was de- ferred to July 16 because of death of a candidate. Their leaders have been in and out of Ontario again and again since the campaign began in April. Prime Minister Diefen- baker picked London for_his formal campaign kickoff. Both he and Liberal Leader Pearson are concentrating heavily here in the closing rush. NOMINATION REJECTED The reorganized New Demo- cratic and Social Credit parties are wooing the province's voters almost as assiduously as their old-line rivals. The NDP is con- testing 80 of the 84 seats, Social Credit 70. The NDP's T. C. Douglas and Social Credit's Robert Thompson have swept Frank McGee in York - Scar- borough with 35,377. Another 24 recorded margins of 10,000 or better. Only one of the 67 was below 1,000--at 520. By contrast, five of the 15 Liberals won by less than 1,000 votes and their biggest single margin went to Rodger Mitchell in Sudbury with 5,132. The three CCF win- ners recorded majorities of 226, 1,090 and 2,002. MAJORITIES WIPED OUT The opposition parties cite re- sults in seven byelections since 1958 to buttress their argument that the big majorities aren't impregnable. The NDP over- came a Conservative majority of 11,778 in Peterborough to win by 2,961. Leeds, Conservative by 3,530 four years ago, turned Lib- eral by 2,548. Toronto Trinity went Liberal by 771 after a 2,026 Conservative majority in 1958. In Grenville - Dundas and Hastings - Frontenac, Conser- vative strongholds, government candidates won by reduced ma- jorities. The Liberals increased their last-election margins in retaining Niagara Falls and Russell. Party strategists on all sides face nagging imponderables, a major one of the impact of pop- ulation growth and shifts since 1958, particularly in the bur- geoning suburbs around On- tario's major cities. Others include purely provin- cial issues--the reaction to a provincial sales tax, retirement of former Conservative premier Frost and the effect of evidence before a royal commission in- vestigating crime. MANY IMMIGRANTS Distribution of population pre- sents campaigners with a sharply varied pattern. In tra- ditionally Tory Toronto, immi- grants from Europe since the war are a major factor. French- speaking Canadians are a po- tent voting force along the Ot- tawa Valley and in Northern Ontario. Rural areas in South- ern Ontario, their farm popula- tions shrinking apace, are still a dominating fact in the prov- ince's political life. Seven of the Conservative cabinet's 24 members are seek- ing re-election in the province: Finance Minister Fleming in Toronto Eglinton; Trade Minis- ter Hees in Toronto Broadview; Immigration Minister Fair- clough, Canada's first woman cabinet minister, in Hamilton West; Labor Minister Starr in Ontario; Health Minister Mon- teith in Perth; Works Minister Walker in Toronto Rosedale and G. Ernest Halpenny, minister without portfolio, in London. The Conservative roster in- cludes the only father-daugnier team ever to sit in the Com- mons: Hon, Earl Rowe, in Duf- ferin-Simcoe, only member of the 1930-35 Bennett cabinet still active in politics; and his dau- ghter, Mrs. Jean Casselman, in Grenville-Dundas. Mr. Pearson, seeking re-elec- tion in Algoma East, heads an array of Liberal prominents that includes former cabinet ministers Paul Martin in Essex East and Paul Hellyer in Tor- onto Trinity. Walter Gordon, a key figure in formation of party policy, is running in Toronto Davenport. Mitchell Sharp, for-| mer deputy trade minister, is} battling Mr. Fleming in Tor-, BEAUTIFUL EXTERIORS... BEAUTIFULLY PROTECTED SOLIGNUM gives natural wood beauty and out standing protection fr 12 colours, Fast applic STURGEONS LTD., Scarborough om water and weather, 'ation. No peeling. Available ot HARDWARE & PAINT STORES, LUMBER & BUILDING SUPPLIERS into the province for freq barnstorming tours. Provincial party leaders have swung solidly behind their fed- eral associates. Premier Ro- barts has come out solidly for Mr. Diefenbaker. Liberal leader John Wintermeyer has hit the campaign trail with Mr. Pear- son. Donald C. MacDonald, NDP, has been speaking almost nightly for his party. Social Credit's Philip T. Kelly, a former mines minister in the provincial Conservative govern- ment, intended to be a candi- date but his entry was rejected on nomination day because his nomination papers lacked the required number of signatures of eligible voters from his chosen constituency, Toronto Broadview. Regarded as traditionally Conservative, Ontario neverthe- less has been prime political fighting ground. It favored the Conservatives 18 times in 24 general elections since Confed- eration. But five of the six times it went Liberal, that party cap- tured the country. STRONG PC SUPPORT Its swing to the Conservatives was the decisive factor in 1957 in ending 22 years of Liberal government in Canada. Of the party's winning total of 102 members, 61 came from On- tario which had elected only 33 Conservatives in 1953. Liberal strength fell to 20 from 50. The province boosted its sup- port to 67 Conservatives in 1958 when the party won 208 seats. By dissolution last April, the number was down to 63 due to three byelection losses and one vacancy. The Liberals, who won 15 seats in 1958, gained two for a total of 17 by dissolution. The CCF elected three members four years ago and its succes- sor, the NDP, gained its first parliamentary seat in a 1960 by- election in Peterborough. The Conservatives ran up ponderous majorities in their PLEASE! ... Pay Him Promptly! ..» He's on YOUR PAYROLL each day. serving you. 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He works 20 hours a day or more, often refreshing himself with a brief catnap rather than a long sleep. While waiting for a weather report that would a!- low a flight to Baffin Island nolling divisions, he curled ur in an eider down sleeping bag on the floor of his office in this town 550 miles north of Edmon- ton. When the telephone woke him with a favorable weather re- port, he was ready to send his flight plan to election clerks at Rankin Inlet, 285 miles north- west of Churchill on the west coast of mudson Bay, and at Frobisher Bay, 700 miles far- ther east on the.south coast of|and Baffin Island. PARACHUTE DROPS He gathered his portable of- fice in plywood boxes, threw his sleeping bag over his shoul- der and headed for the airport. With him went parachutes used to drop ballot hoxes at polling stations where aircraft might not be able to land. The results of Mr. Borden's work will show up on election day, June 18, when those among the estimated 13,700 el- igible voters who choose to cast their ballots make their way to polling stations. And, like returning officers in other more accessible ridings, he will that night be following Chief Electoral Officer Nelson Castonguay's instructions to do everything he can to help The Canadian Press and other news media in promptly collecting accurate returns. During her husband's absence and ever since his appointment as returning officer April 6, Daphne Borden has been de- voting much of her time to run- ning the Yellowknife tourist agency, the business her hus- band began here in 1953. She was born six miles from Windsor Castle in a green belt surrounding London and came to Canada in 1948. She met her husband in Vancouver in 1950 and they were married the' same year. They have two chil- dren, Michael, 9, and Richard, 7..It's hard scratching to make any private enterprise sulceed up here, says Mrs. Borden, who is used to helping her husband miles of the Northwest Terri- tories. RMC GRADUATE Mr. Borden, now 46, was born in Paignton, Devon, Eng- land, the son of a Canadian Army surgeon who took his wife to England with him dur- ing the First World War and decided to stay. He came to Canada in 1919, lived at Cal- gary, Daysland and Coleman, Alta., and Penticton, B.C., be- fore enrolling at the Royal Mil- itary College at Kingston, Ont., for army training. After the war, aptitude tests indicated he would be a poor manager "'because I see too far into details involved in a prob- lem." He began studying ac- counting by correspond- ence and worked at mines in the Yellowknife area where he spend long hours at hard workithought there would be fewer but she likes the miles and distractions from study. Ka Clearance from Stock! 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