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Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About James Chalker
- James Ronald Chalker (October 12, 1912 – August 17, 2003) was a Canadian politician and businessperson.
- He represented the electoral districts of Harbour Grace and St.
- Barbe North in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1949 to 1972.
- He was a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.The son of James Chalker and Mary Byrne, he was born at St.
- John's in 1912 and was educated at Bishop Feild College and St.
- Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario.
- In 1937, he married Margaret L.
- Butt.
- Before being elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949, Chalker was managing director of Chalker and Co.
- Ltd.
- and Newfoundland Lime Ltd.
- He served in Joey Smallwood's cabinet for 22 years, serving as Minister of Education, Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Provincial Affairs.
- At the time of his death in 2003, Chalker was the last surviving former Smallwood Cabinet member.The east block of the Confederation Building, the Arts and Culture Centres in St.
- John's and Corner Brook, the College of Trades and Technology and Memorial University were built during Chalker's tenure as public works minister.
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