11 Facts About Mac Makarchuk

Mitro "Mac" Makarchuk was a Canadian politician and journalist.

Mac Makarchuk was an Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Brantford from 1967 to 1971 and again from 1975 to 1981.

In 1959, as a first year student at the University of Toronto, Makarchuk offered to underwrite a Canadian intercollegiate hockey championship between the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team and University of Saskatchewan Huskies as there was no national playoff between eastern and western Canadian regional hockey champions.

Mac Makarchuk then moved to Ontario and worked as a journalist for the Brantford Expositor.

Mac Makarchuk was the New Democratic Party of Canada's candidate in the 1965 federal election in the riding of Brantford but was defeated, coming in third place.

Mac Makarchuk was nominated to be the provincial party's candidate in the 1967 provincial election and sought a leave of absence from the Expositor but was refused and then fired.

Mac Makarchuk was elected to the provincial riding of Brantford to the Ontario legislature in 1967.

Mac Makarchuk was then elected to Brantford city council as an alderman in 1972.

Mac Makarchuk returned to the legislature in the 1975, this time defeating Beckett.

Mac Makarchuk lost his seat in 1981 to PC candidate Phil Gillies.

Mac Makarchuk returned to Brantford City Council by winning a seat in the 1982 municipal election, serving for a three-year term as councillor for ward 4 before retiring from politics in 1985.