Thunder Bay - Superior North

• Bev Sarafin
• Brendan Hughes
• Don McArthur
• Denis Carrière
• Bruce Hyer

Bev Sarafin

Party: Conservative Party of Canada

Marital Status: Married

Name of Spouse: Jim

Children: Two children

Career Background: Former retail assistant manager. Intervener before a provincial parliamentary committee regarding the Retail Business Act of Ontario. As a trustee on the Public Library Board in Bracebridge, Ont., played a major role in rewriting policy. Lobbied on behalf of the Discover Geraldton Interpretive Centre. Self-employed in full-time farming and farm management in Orillia, Ont.

Community Activities: Member of the Greenstone Recruitment and Retention Team. Director of Geraldton Community Forest Inc. A member of the Geraldton Ward Advisory Committee. County director, Pork Marketing Board of Ontario. Has taught bible classes to teenagers for almost a decade.

Electoral History

Municipal: Ran unsuccessfully for Geraldton Ward Councillor in 2003.

Federal: Ran unsuccessfully in this riding in the 2004 and 2006 general elections.

Mailing address:

679 Memorial Ave.

Thunder Bay, Ont.

P7B 3Z6

Contact information:

Telephone: 807-285-6162

Fax: 807-285-1990

info@electbevsarafin.ca

electbevsarafin.ca

Brendan Hughes

Party: Green Party of Canada

Age: 33

Birthplace: Thunder Bay, Ont.

Education: Earned a bachelor of outdoor recreation in parks and tourism (with honours and first-class standing), a BA (history) and a bachelor in education (first-class standing). Currently pursuing a master's in environmental education.

Profession: Teacher

Marital Status: Married

Name of Spouse: Jordana Bahlieda

Career Background: Worked as a camp counsellor and director for Quetico Adventures for 10 years. He then worked as a teaching assistant for Lakehead University from 1996 to 2007. Simultaneously worked in hospitality from 1998 to 2007. Currently works as the New Student Orientation and Commuter Services Officer for the Office of Admissions and Recruitment at Lakehead University as well as teaches school based outdoor education for the Faculty of Education. He also worked briefly as a tree planter and a raft guide.

Community Activities: Involved in various organizations since 1990, including the Red Cross, the Canadian Cancer Society, Easter Seals, the Children's Wish Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club and the Alzheimer's Society. Also a member of the Thunder Bay Association for Volunteer administrations and the Ontario College of Teachers. Co-chair of Lakehead's joint health and safety committee and director on the board for Lake Superior place, a grassroots community group fighting for the development of an ecologically sound building on Thunder Bay's waterfront.

Contact information:

Telephone (home): 807-577-3907

Telephone (cell): 807-251-7020

brendan.hughes@greenparty.ca

www.brendanhughes.ca

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Don McArthur

Party: Liberal Party of Canada

Birthdate: 1963

Age: 45

Birthplace: Weston, Ont.

Education: Fourth Class Stationary Engineers course at George Brown. Certified Financial Planning courses through correspondence.

Profession: Entrepreneur

Marital Status: Married

Name of Spouse: Birgit

Children: Two - Travis and Billy

Career Background: He has run the Voyageur Esso, a gas station and restaurant in Schreiber, since 1989. From 1983 to 1989, he was a salesman of custom business forms at Lancaster Business Forms.

Community Activities: Was a member of the board of directors of the Aguasabon Chamber of Commerce, as president from 1994 to 1999. Co-founded the Schreiber Heritage and Tourism Committee in 1992, served as vice-chair until 1999. Was a member of the Terrace Bay Police Services Board over three years.

Electoral History

Municipal: Elected Mayor of Schreiber in 2003, served until 2007. Elected councillor in 2000.

Contact information:

Telephone: 807-825-9673

dmcart@vianet.ca

www.donmcarthur.ca

Denis Carrière

Party: Marijuana Party of Canada

Birthdate: April 22, 1963

Age: 45

Birthplace: Sudbury, Ont.

Education: Completed an apprenticeship in power engineering.

Profession: Labourer

Marital Status: Single

Career Background: Worked as a labourer for 23 years at Kimberly-Clark Corp., an American company specializing in paper-based consumer products. The company later became Neenah Papers, where he works in the boiler house.

Electoral History

Municipal: Ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Schreiber in 2000 and in 2004.

Provincial: Ran unsuccessfully in Thunder Bay-Superior North in 2000 and 2004.

Federal: Ran unsuccessfully in the riding in 2006.

Contact information:

Telephone: 807-824-3144

denis4201@yahoo.ca

www.marijuanaparty.ca

Bruce Hyer

Party: New Democratic Party of Canada

Education: Holds a M.Sc. in forestry from Lakehead University.

Profession: Businessman

Career Background: An ecologist, biologist, forester, and businessperson. His company, WildWaters Nature Tours & Expeditions Ltd., retails and wholesales canoes and kayaks, and has run a variety of wilderness adventures and ecotours from bases in Thunder Bay and Armstrong since 1976. A consultant on forestry and tourism, served as an adjudicator on the Province of Ontario Environmental Appeal Board from 1988 to 1997.

Community Activities: A board member and past president of the North of Superior Tourism Association. Has also served as a member of the boards of directors of Northern Ontario Tourist Outfitters, the Armstrong Wilderness Outfitters Association, and the Wildlands League. Past president of Environment North. Serves on both the Local Citizens Committee and Forest Management Planning Team for the Domtar-Armstrong Forest. Member of the Thunder Bay Remedial Action Plan, was co-founder/first co-chair of Lake Superior Binational Forum.

Electoral History

Federal: Ran unsuccessfully in this riding in the 2004 and 2006 general elections.

Contact information:

brucehyer@ndp.ca

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