Editing Harry Harapiak (section)

{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
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| name = Harry Harapiak
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1938|9|17}}
| birth_place        = [[Cowan, Manitoba]], Canada
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2000|11|14|1938|9|17}}
| death_place        =
| residence =
| office = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]] for [[The Pas (electoral district)|The Pas]]
| term_start = 1977
| term_end = 1990
| predecessor = [[Ron McBryde]]
| successor = [[Oscar Lathlin]]
| party = [[New Democratic Party of Manitoba]]
| religion =
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'''Harry Myrislaw Harapiak''' (September 17, 1938 – November 14, 2000) was a [[politician]] in [[Manitoba]], Canada.  He served as a member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]] from 1981 to 1990, and was a [[Minister (government)|cabinet minister]] in the [[New Democratic Party of Manitoba|New Democratic Party]] government of [[Howard Pawley]].<ref name="members">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/hansard/members/mla_bio_deceased.html#H0 |title=MLA Biographies - Deceased |work=Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330155427/http://www.gov.mb.ca/hansard/members/mla_bio_deceased.html#H0 |archivedate=2014-03-30 }}</ref>  His brother [[Leonard Harapiak]] was also a cabinet minister in the Pawley administration, and his sister [[Rosann Wowchuk]] was a cabinet minister in the governments of [[Gary Doer]] and Greg Selinger and retired before the 2011 Manitoba election.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/former-minister-harapiak-dead-at-62-1.207883 |title=Former minister Harapiak dead at 62 |publisher=CBC News |date=November 16, 2000 |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref>

The son of William John Harapiak and Mary Philipchuk,<ref name="pgn">{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1984 |last=Normandin |first=Pierre G}}</ref> Harry Harapiak was born in [[Cowan, Manitoba]]<ref name="hansard">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/business/hansard/37th_2nd/vol_027/h027.html |title=Hansard |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |date=May 9, 2001 |accessdate=2014-03-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062253/http://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/business/hansard/37th_2nd/vol_027/h027.html |archivedate=April 7, 2014 }}</ref> and was educated there, at Minitonas College and at Coniston Continuation; he did not attend university.<ref name="pgn"/>  In the 1950s, he left the family farm to work at the [[Vale Limited|Inco]] mines in [[Sudbury, Ontario|Sudbury]]. He married Carol Anne Eastwood in 1962 in Coniston, Ontario<ref>{{cite news |url=http://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-128510/name-Carol_Harapiak/ |title=Carol Harapiak |date=December 8, 2007 |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref> and they had five children together - Marianne, Mark, Christine, Kelly and Chad. He returned to farming in Manitoba the following year. After a few years of subsistence farming, he began work with the [[Canadian National Railway]].<ref name="obit"/> Harry served as a Kelsey School Board trustee in The Pas, Manitoba from 1973 to 1981.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the [[1981 Manitoba general election|provincial election of 1981]], for the northern riding of [[The Pas (Manitoba riding)|The Pas]].  Pawley's NDP won a majority government in this election, and on January 30, 1985, Harapiak was appointed [[Manitoba Minister of Northern Affairs|Minister of Northern Affairs]] with responsibility for the Communities Economic Development Fund Act  and some aspects of the Manitoba Natural Resources Development Act .  He was re-elected without difficulty in the [[1986 Manitoba general election|1986 election]] and kept in his portfolio, without the additional responsibilities.  On February 4, 1987, he was appointed [[Manitoba Minister of Government Services|Minister of Government Services]] with responsibility for the [[Workers Compensation Act (Manitoba ministry)|Workers Compensation Act]] (except as regards Worker Advisers).<ref name="members"/>

The New Democrats were unexpectedly defeated in the legislature in early 1988, and were defeated in the [[1988 Manitoba general election|election which followed]].  Harry Harapiak was re-elected for The Pas,<ref name="members"/> and sat in the opposition benches for the next two years.  He did not run for re-election in 1990, and returned to his private career as a VIA Rail Canada engineer.<ref name="hansard"/> In 1997, he became a [[deacon]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in Winnipeg.<ref name="obit"/>

On May 19, 1984, Harry's eldest daughter Marianne married [[Todd Lamb (Lamb Air)|Todd Lamb]], the grandson of [[Tom Lamb (businessman)|Tom Lamb]] from [[The Pas]], [[Manitoba]].

On April 13, 2005, Harry's daughter [[Christine Harapiak]] was appointed as a Judge in Manitoba.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/provincial-court/about-the-provincial-court/judges/ |title=Judges |publisher=Manitoba Courts |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref>

Harry's eldest son Mark Harapiak is an actor based in Toronto. He has appeared in many productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Mark's wife, Blythe Wilson appeared in Mary Poppins on Broadway in 2011-2012.

Harry Harapiak died November 14, 2000, at the age of 62.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |url=http://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-56441/name-Harry_Harapiak/ |title=Harry Harapiak |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press |date=November 16, 2000 |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref>