McCallion died early Sunday, Premier Doug Ford announced shortly after 8 a.m.
“There isn’t a single person who met Hazel who didn’t leave in awe of her personality,” he said in a statement.Rex Murphy: Harry Steele's drive was immense. His Newfoundlander's heart was larger
“She would ask me, what do you want to accomplish in life?” said McCallion. “Do you want to be a follower or do you want to take advantage of opportunities to be a leader?” McCallion was elected as mayor of Streetsville in 1970 and served until 1973, when the town was amalgamated into the City of Mississauga. She served as councillor until 1978, when she became the first elected mayor of the city.
A few months after being elected mayor, McCallion was faced with a major crisis when a Canadian Pacific Rail freight train derailed in the city, causing several propane-filled train cars to explode. “Her line was: I must appeal to my people as their leader,” said Urbaniak, who studied the transcripts kept by officials during the crisis.“She created the idiom: do your homework,” Bonnie Crombie, the current mayor of Mississauga and city councillor from 2011 to 2014, said last summer.
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