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Sterling Lyon was born on 30 January, 1927 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is a Premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981. Discover Sterling Lyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Occupation lawyer
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 30 January, 1927
Birthday 30 January
Birthplace Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Date of death 16 December, 2010
Died Place Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1927

Sterling Rufus Lyon (January 30, 1927 – December 16, 2010) was a Canadian lawyer, cabinet minister, and the 17th premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981.

His government introduced several fiscally-conservative measures, and was sometimes seen as a local version of the government of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom.

He also successfully fought for the inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, the son of David Rufus Lyon and Ella Mae Cuthbert, he moved with his family to Manitoba at a young age and grew up in Portage la Prairie.

1948

Lyon graduated from United College (now the University of Winnipeg) in 1948, and received an LL.B from the Manitoba Law School in 1953.

For four years after completing his legal education, he worked as a Crown attorney.

1953

In 1953, he married Barbara Jean Mayers.

1958

Lyon was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in 1958, in the south-central Winnipeg riding of Fort Garry, running as a Progressive Conservative.

Lyon defeated incumbent Liberal-Progressive MLA L. Raymond Fennell, and was subsequently named as Attorney General in Dufferin Roblin's minority government.

1959

Roblin's Tories won a majority in 1959, and Lyon was easily re-elected in his own riding.

1960

He continued to serve as Attorney General, and also served as Minister of Municipal Affairs (September 30, 1960 – October 25, 1961) and Minister of Public Utilities (October 31, 1961 – June 12, 1963).

1962

He was re-elected easily in 1962 or 1966.

He served a total of nine years as Attorney General.

1963

On December 9, 1963, Lyon was shifted from the Attorney General's position to the Ministry of Mines and Natural Resources.

1966

He held this position until June 22, 1966, and briefly served as Public Utilities minister again in mid-1964.

Lyon became Attorney General again after the 1966 election, and also served as Minister of Tourism and Recreation from 1968 to 1969.

1967

When Roblin moved to federal politics in 1967, Lyon was one of four candidates who sought to replace him.

1969

He was defeated by Walter Weir on the third ballot, and did not seek re-election in 1969.

Although Weir and Lyon were both politically to the right of Roblin, they represented different constituencies in the party: Weir was a rural populist, Lyon a supporter of urban business development.

In February 1969, Lyon expressed skepticism about the wisdom of codifying common law rights in a written constitution.

1971

Spivak, a former cabinet colleague of Lyon's who had been elected party leader in 1971, was a Red Tory opposed by many of the more conservative figures within his caucus.

1974

Lyon ran for the House of Commons of Canada in 1974 for the federal Progressive Conservatives, narrowly losing the riding of Winnipeg South to Liberal incumbent James A. Richardson.

The following year, Lyon returned to provincial politics to challenge Sidney Spivak for the Progressive Conservative Party's leadership.

1975

The right wing of the party consolidated around Lyon's challenge, and he defeated Spivak by fifty-seven votes at a very divisive leadership convention in December 1975.

1976

Lyon returned to the legislature for the rural riding of Souris-Killarney in a 1976 by-election.

1977

In 1977, Lyon transferred to the west Winnipeg seat of Charleswood.

He led the Progressive Conservative Party to an upset victory over Edward Schreyer's New Democrats), picking up 12 seats for a total of 33. Lyon's government cut spending in several departments and reduced investment in several social programs sponsored by the NDP. In other respects, the Lyon government's commitment to "small government" was ambivalent—it was, for instance, highly supportive of large-scale energy-development projects. Roblin has argued that the Lyon government's right-wing reputation was undeserved, but few others have as yet agreed with this assessment.

Lyon was also an initial opponent of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's constitutional plans, and subsequently became a leading supporter of the notwithstanding clause provision.

He also fought, unsuccessfully, to have property rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada.

1981

Lyon's PCs lost government to the NDP, now led by Howard Pawley, in 1981, after only one term in office.

The Tories lost 11 seats, almost as much as they had won four years earlier.

Lyon acted as Leader of the Opposition for two years and fought Pawley's proposals to entrench the rights of Franco-Manitobans in the Constitution.

1982

He was sworn into the Privy Council on April 17, 1982, by Governor General Edward Schreyer on the advice of Pierre Trudeau.

1983

In 1983, Lyon stepped down as Tory leader and was replaced by Gary Filmon.

1986

Lyon retired from politics when he did not run for re-election in the 1986 provincial election.

He was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Appeal in 1986.

2002

He served there until retiring in 2002.

2004

In 2004, Lyon was chosen as the University of Winnipeg's annual recipient of the "Distinguished Alumnus Award".

2009

In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a judge and long-time politician in Manitoba, where, as premier, he led the expansion of community-based health and social services, and modernized governmental financial procedures".

2010

Sterling Lyon died on December 16, 2010, following a brief illness, at the age of 83.