How old is hazel mccallion mayor

Read more about: Hazel Mccallion , Mississauga. Report an error. Journalistic Standards. About The Star. More Life. Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. Hazel McCallion is set to mark yet another milestone on Sunday.

The former Mississauga mayor will turn years old on Feb. McCallion is a businesswoman-turned-politician. She was born in Quebec and began her corporate career in Montreal at Canadian Kellogg, an engineering and contracting firm, according to a City of Mississauga biography.

McCallion was eventually transferred to Toronto and worked in business until when she decided to get into politics. She held a number of local roles in Streetsville now a part of Mississauga , including being mayor. Construction will start in April and the library will reopen in Paul Mitcham, city manager and chief administrative officer, said in the release that McCallion made a difference to Mississauga. Proceeds from the coffee table photo book will be used to rebuild Mississauga Hospital.

The Mississauga Arts Council has also produced a video, hosted by Crombie, to mark the birthday. According to McCallion, one of her accomplishments was her handling of the train derailment in Mississauga that forced , people, out of a population out of ,, to flee the city.

She is the longest serving mayor in Canada and has kept the city debt-free since her first term of office. It sits within the Peel Regional Municipality of Ontario, the county authority covering the suburbs of Toronto, which provides a range of strategic-level services across the towns and cities under it. In its history since incorporation as a city in , there have only been three mayors elected in Mississauga, the first two serving only one term each before McCallion secured election in McCallion began her political career in on the Streetsville municipality, a village body later absorbed into Mississauga under the new city guise in After becoming Chairman of the Planning Board, she progressed to become deputy reeve, then reeve and then mayor of Streetsville, until its incorporation into Mississauga.