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About Douglas Stanes
- Douglas Moncrieff Stanes (February 28, 1917 in England – April 29, 2001) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969.Stanes was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Middlesex Regiment, and served in southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
- In 1945-46, he served as Senior Official on Industrial Rehabilitation with the British Economic Mission in Greece.
- From 1955 to 1957, he served as a councillor for the City of St.
- James, which later became a part of Winnipeg.He was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1958 election, defeating Liberal incumbent Reginald Wrightman by 476 votes in the riding of St.
- James.
- He was re-elected by a comfortable margin in the 1959 election (defeating future NDP cabinet minister Alvin Mackling), and by fairly comfortable margins in the elections of 1962 and 1966.
- On the latter occasion, he defeated Liberal candidate Lloyd Axworthy, later a prominent federal cabinet minister, by 790 votes.
- Despite his background, Stanes was never appointed to cabinet. He was defeated in the 1969 provincial election, losing to Alvin Mackling of the NDP by 966 votes.
- He did not seek a return to the provincial legislature after this time, but was elected to the united Winnipeg city council in the municipal elections of 1971, 1974 and 1977.
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