# Gordon Burton Grant > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gordon_Burton_Grant > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gordon_Burton_Grant.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Burton_Grant > Source revision: 1357046715 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian politician (1910–2001) For the politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands, see [Gordon Burton](/source/Gordon_Burton). **Gordon Burton Grant** (September 13, 1910 – January 16, 2001) was a Canadian real estate and insurance agent and political figure in [Saskatchewan](/source/Saskatchewan). He represented [Regina South](/source/Regina_South) and then Regina Whitmore Park in the [Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Saskatchewan) from 1964 to 1975 as a [Liberal](/source/Saskatchewan_Liberal_Party). He was born in [Regina, Saskatchewan](/source/Regina%2C_Saskatchewan), the son of William Grant and Margaret Moses, and was educated there, at the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia), the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) and the [University of Saskatchewan](/source/University_of_Saskatchewan). In 1935, he married Eileen Briggs. Grant served on the local school board and on Regina city council and was mayor from 1952 to 1953. He was a member of the provincial cabinet, serving as [Minister of Highways and Transportation](/source/Ministry_of_Highways_and_Infrastructure_(Saskatchewan)) from 1964 to 1966, as Minister of Telephones from 1964 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1971, as Minister of Industry and Information from 1964 to 1965, as Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1965 to 1967 and as [Minister of Public Health](/source/Ministry_of_Health_(Saskatchewan)) from 1966 to 1971.[1] During his tenure as health minister, the province's government introduced user fees for health services as part of the so-called "Black Friday budget" and closed 11 rural hospitals.[2] Grant served as [whip](/source/Whip_(politics)) from 1971 to 1975 when the Liberals formed the official opposition. After retiring from politics in 1975, he moved to [Kelowna, British Columbia](/source/Kelowna%2C_British_Columbia). His first wife died in 1998; Grant later married his second wife, Helen. He died in Kelowna at the age of 90[1] from [pneumonia](/source/Pneumonia).[2] ## Electoral history 1971 Saskatchewan general election: Regina Whitmore Park Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Gordon Grant 3,777 65.85% -1.43 NDP Art Lloyd 1,959 34.15% +6.64 Total 5,736 100.00% 1967 Saskatchewan general election: Regina South Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Gordon Grant 6,297 67.28% -2.08 NDP Jack W. Kehoe 2,575 27.51% -3.13 Progressive Conservative Lillian Groeller 487 5.21% – Total 9,359 100.00% 1964 Saskatchewan general election: Regina South Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Gordon Grant 7,788 69.36% – CCF George R. Bothwell 3,440 30.64% – Total 11,228 100.00% ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-sain_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-sain_1-1) ["Gordon B. Grant fonds"](http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/index.php/gordon-b-grant-fonds;rad). Saskatchewan Archival Information Network. Retrieved 2012-03-11. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-quiring_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-quiring_2-1) Quiring, Brett (2004). [*Saskatchewan politicians: lives past and present*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA93). Canadian Plains Research Center Press. pp. 92–3. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0889771650](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0889771650). Retrieved 2012-03-11. ## External links - Lexier, Roberta. ["Grant, Gordon Burton (1910–2001)"](https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/grant_gordon_burton_1910-2001.html). *Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan*. Retrieved 2012-03-11. v t e Mayors of Regina, Saskatchewan Scott Mowat W.C. Hamilton Smith McCaul R. H. Williams Willoughby Martin Marsh Eddy Darke McInnis Mollard Smith Laird P. McAra Smith R. H. Williams P. McAra Martin Balfour Cowan Black Grassick Burton Mason J. McAra Balfour J. McAra Rink Ellison Grassick C. C. Williams McNall McGillivray Menzies Grant Hammond Cowburn Baker Walker Baker Schneider D. 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