She is ninety years young and like the energizer rabbit she show no sign of her slowing down. Hazel McCallion is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, the sixth-largest city in Canada. Mayor Hazel McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 32 years, holding office since she was first elect in 1978 after narrowly defeating the popular incumbent Eon A. Searle. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.
Hazel Journeaux better know to the world as Mayor Hazel McCallion was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspe Coast of Quebec. Her father's family traces their roots back to the island of Jersey. Jersey is where the Bailiwick of Jersey which is a Bristish crown Depency off the coast of Nornamdy, France. Her father Herbert Armand Journeaux who passed away in 1944 at the age of 65 owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Maude Travers was a homemaker and ran the family farm until 1955. Hazel McCallion the sole survivalof the family had two sisters, Linda Maude Adams, and Margret Gwendolyn Travers Capener and two brothers, Herbert Lorne Journeaux, and James Wilson Lockhart Journeaux who are now with the Lord. She graduated from Quebec High School and later attended a business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but financially her family could not afford it. After working in Montreal, she was transferred by Canadian Kellogg company to Toronto.
It was in Ontario where Hazel Journeaux met and married her husband, Sam McCallion in an Angilcan Church. It was her Christian faith that is largely attributed to her concern for the public good. There is too many thing I could have written about this dynamic women however, today over one thousand friends of the mayor contributed three hundred and fifty dollars each to attend her birthday gala in her honour and raise fund for the new Seridan College in Mississauga.
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