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About Ron Chisholm
- Ron Chisholm (born September 30, 1948) is a Canadian politician.
- He represented the electoral districts of Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury and Guysborough-Sheet Harbour in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.Born in 1948 at Goshen, Nova Scotia, Chisholm married Alberta McGrath.
- From 1969 to 1980, he was employed with Nova Scotia Power, as a machine operator.
- In 1980, he was elected business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, where he represented 1300 unionized workers.
- He was later employed with the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation, and the Guysborough Journal as advertising manager.Chisholm served as a municipal councillor in the District of St.
- Mary's from 1988 to 1999, serving as Warden from 1994 to 1999.
- Chisholm first attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Liberal incumbent Ray White.
- Chisholm ran again in 1999, and defeated White by 134 votes.
- He was re-elected in the newly established Guysborough-Sheet Harbour riding in the 2003 election.
- When Rodney MacDonald took over as premier in February 2006, Chisholm was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia, as Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.
- He was re-elected in 2006, and retained the fisheries and aquaculture portfolio in a post-election cabinet shuffle.
- Chisholm was defeated when he ran for re-election in 2009, losing to New Democrat Jim Boudreau by more than 1800 votes.
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