David Edward Crombie was born on April 24,1936 and is a Canadian former academic and politician who served as the 56th mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.
22 Facts About David Crombie
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David Crombie was born in Swansea, then a village west of Toronto, the son of Vera Edith and Norman Davis David Crombie.
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David Crombie was a lecturer in politics and urban affairs at Ryerson in the 1960s when he became involved in Toronto's urban reform movement.
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David Crombie was elected to Toronto's city council in 1970, and became Mayor of Toronto in 1972, ushering in an era of socially responsible urban development inspired by thinkers such as Jane Jacobs.
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David Crombie initially imposed a 45-foot limit on all new constructions, but this was overturned by the Ontario Municipal Board.
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David Crombie then put forward a new official plan that imposed varying height restrictions across the city, and this was upheld by the board.
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David Crombie was more successful in countering plans for the Scarborough Expressway; all work was halted during Crombie's term, leading to its eventual cancellation.
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David Crombie opposed the traditional pattern of demolishing poorer neighbourhoods and replacing them with housing projects.
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David Crombie was re-elected in 1974 and 1976 with large majorities.
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David Crombie left City Hall in 1978 to move to federal politics, winning a by-election as a Progressive Conservative candidate that gave him a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.
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David Crombie served as Minister of Health and Welfare in the short-lived minority government of Prime Minister Joe Clark which was elected in 1979 but lost power the next year.
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David Crombie stood as a candidate at the 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.
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Frustrated in Ottawa, as a Red Tory in an increasingly conservative government, David Crombie decided not to run in the 1988 election, and returned to urban affairs as head of the royal commission on the Future of Toronto's waterfront.
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David Crombie authored ground-breaking reports including Watershed' and Regeneration, which described new integrated approaches to sustainable planning.
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In 1999, David Crombie founded the Waterfront Regeneration Trust, as a charity, to continue the work of the provincial agency, and serves on the Board.
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David Crombie tried to find an alternative to Red Hill Creek Expressway but the Hamilton city council dismissed his compromise proposal out of hand as being insufficient.
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David Crombie was appointed Ryerson's first chancellor in 1994 when the polytechnic was granted university status.
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On May 13,2004, David Crombie was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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David Crombie serves on the Governors' Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation, the Honorary Council for the Loran Scholars Foundation, and the boards of CivicAction and the Planet in Focus Foundation.
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David Crombie serves on the advisory boards of the Ryerson Image Centre and CARP Canada.
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David Crombie is the father of two daughters, Robin and Carrie, and actor Jonathan David Crombie, who starred in three Anne of Green Gables TV series.
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David Crombie's organs were donated, he was cremated and his ashes returned to Canada.