As mayor for 36 years, she read the changing moods of her city and transformed it, distinguishing herself as a master of realpolitik
Hazel McCallion was fond of telling people that she built her city’s core out of a hayfield.
As Tom Urbaniak, author of a biography on Ms. McCallion, once told The Globe and Mail: “She knows how to get out in front of a parade before it’s even formed up.” Ms. McCallion with various Ontario premiers over her political career: Bill Davis in 1975, Mike Harris in 1998, Kathleen Wynne in 2014 and Doug Ford in 2018.For her 100th birthday in 2021, Ms. McCallion was feted virtually by Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and members of city council during a general committee meeting.Born Hazel Mary Muriel Journeaux on Feb.
Elected deputy reeve in 1967, she became mayor of Streetsville two years later. When the town was amalgamated into Mississauga, she was elected to its first council. Mississauga took shape under Ms. McCallion as a city of suburban tract housing, slab high-rise apartment buildings and strip plazas, crisscrossed by expressways. Attempts to build a city centre, in that oft-referenced hayfield around the Square One shopping centre, followed a plan that could have been pulled from Le Corbusier, with wide arterial roads girdling institutional buildings and high-rise towers surrounded by parks.
Over time, she also ensured that as much power as possible was consolidated in her hands, abolishing various public boards and refusing to allow individual city councillors to take on specific areas of influence – such as the budget – as they did in other cities.In 1982, she was convicted of breaking the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act for backing the release of land that she owned for development. Nonetheless, she defeated a comeback attempt by Ron Searle with 71 per cent of the vote.
Oct. 25, 2010: Ms. McCallion celebrates her election victory with flowers as her son Peter, left, looks on in the background.Aside from the scandal, Ms. McCallion’s final years in office were dominated by another about-face in policy. The mayor reverted to the reformism she had espoused early in her career, championing public transit, new bicycle lanes and denser development. The change was no doubt motivated in part by the desire for better planning that swept North America in the early 2000s.
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