Allan Grossman was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, for 20 years, a provincial cabinet minister and the father of the late former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Larry Grossman.
20 Facts About Allan Grossman
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Allan Grossman was the first elected Canadian official to visit China.
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Two years later, Moishe Allan Grossman brought his wife Sarah and their then six children to Canada.
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Allan Grossman was the seventh child and the first member of the family to be born in Canada.
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Allan Grossman became a successful businessman and organized his fellow insurance agents into a union to fight the entry into Canada of an allegedly communist-dominated union from the United States.
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Allan Grossman was president of Allan Grossman Insurance Services Ltd.
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Allan Grossman persuaded Grossman to run in his ward against the Labor-Progressive Party candidate who had narrowly been defeated during the previous year's election.
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Allan Grossman ran and defeated the Communist candidate by a margin of 131 votes.
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Allan Grossman was re-elected alderman in the subsequent two annual elections.
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Allan Grossman won, defeating the last Communist in the Ontario legislature.
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Allan Grossman went on to serve under Premier John Robarts as Chief Liquor Commissioner and Minister of Reform Institutions.
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Allan Grossman's leadership was recognized with numerous citations, and in 1971 the University of Ottawa bestowed upon him with an honorary doctorate in Criminology.
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In 1971, Allan Grossman was appointed by Robarts successor, Bill Davis.
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Allan Grossman led the first trade mission from the Western world to China.
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Allan Grossman became Minister of Revenue in 1972 and continued his responsibility for housing.
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Allan Grossman introduced Ontario's tax credit program to assist the elderly and low income families and eliminated much of the red tape that generally plagues a tax-collecting Ministry.
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In 1974, Allan Grossman became the Provincial Secretary for Resources Development with overall policy responsibility for seven ministries.
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Outside politics Allan Grossman fought to help the Hungarian freedom fighters and their Canadian relatives; the citizens of Prague who cried for freedom during the Russian invasion; and, as President of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Service, he assisted homeless persons.
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Allan Grossman was saved when Grossman and a police constable used their coats to smother the flames.
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Allan Grossman died on September 1,1991, of cancer in Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Center; he was 80 years old.