Douglas Glenn Fisher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Douglas Glenn Fisher

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1942

Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Douglas Glenn Fisher

  • Douglas Glenn Fisher (born November 28, 1942 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian politician.
  • The son of Mary Waddington Fisher and Clancy Clare Fisher.
  • Fisher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Assumption University of Windsor in 1963.
  • In 1986, he organized the Clancy Fisher Award for Windsor students entering the University of Windsor.
  • He was married to Christine Purden from 1970 to 1975.
  • In 1978, he married Barbara Jacob.
  • The two later divorced.
  • In 2012, he married Irene DeClute. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada from Mississauga North from 1980 to 1984.
  • He was defeated in the 1984 general election by Progressive Conservative Robert Horner.
  • He ran unsuccessfully against Horner again in 1988. In the House of Commons, he served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1982 to 1984.
  • He chaired the Metropolitan Toronto Liberal parliamentary caucus from 1982 to 1984.
  • He was the Canadian Delegate to the Caribbean Development Bank in 1982 and 1983 and he chaired the Subcommittee on Taxation of Artists and Writers in 1984.
  • From 1975 to 2005, Fisher owned and operated Cross Canada Books, a distribution company that sold Canadian books to schools and libraries.
  • Along with geographer John Koegler, he published two books - Canada’s Changing Landscape and Canada's Modern Landscape.
  • In 2005, he became the manager of the Cabbagetown Business Improvement Area and from 2013 to 2016, he managed the Yonge Bloor Bay Association in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood.
  • He has authored two successful online blogs - the award-winning Cabbagetown News (2007 to 2012) and the Cabbagetown Neighbourhood Review (from 2012).

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