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Place of Birth: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Vince MacLean
- Vincent James MacLean (born December 8, 1944) was leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in 1985 and again from 1986 to 1992.
- He was replaced by John Savage. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island, the son of Joseph W.
- MacLean and Marguerite MacNeil.
- MacLean grew up and lives in Sydney.
- He was educated at Sydney Academy, St.
- Francis Xavier University, the University of New Brunswick and Saint Mary's University.
- He served in the Canadian Officers' Training Corps at CFB Shilo in Manitoba from 1964 to 1966.
- In 1968, he married Natalie Furdas.
- He was a high school teacher at Sydney Academy before being elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in 1974.He represented the riding of Cape Breton South from 1974 until 1993.
- MacLean was speaker for the assembly from 1974 to 1976, when he was named to the cabinet as Minister of Lands and Forests and Minister of Environment.
- He later served as mayor of Sydney.
- In 1997, MacLean sought election to Parliament as a Liberal candidate in the newly created federal riding of Sydney—Victoria, but was defeated by Peter Mancini of the New Democratic Party.
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