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Crawford, Kenneth Grant
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1904-1970
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Professor Crawford was born in Great Village, Nova Scotia in 1904. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in 1924 and an M.A. in 1926 in Political Science. From 1926 to 1934 he was assistant city clerk of London and city clerk from 1934 to 1944 when he came to Queen's University as director of the Institute of Local Government. For two years (1956-1958) he was on loan to the Ontario Government as Deputy Minister of the Department of Municipal Affairs and in 1962 Premiere John Robarts appointed him to a three-member commission set up to prepare a complete redistribution of Ontario's electoral districts. Professor Crawford was elected alderman of the City of Kingston in 1946 and held the post for ten years. He was also a member of the Kingston Planning Board. He was widely known as the author of a leading reference book Canadian Municipal Government. He died July 6, 1970.
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