{{Short description|Canadian politician (1936–2021)}} {{Infobox AM | honorific_prefix = | name = Harold Small | honorific_suffix = MHA | alt = | caption = | constituency_AM = Baie Verte-White Bay | assembly = Newfoundland House of | majority = | term_start = {{start date|1991|10|15|df=yes}} | term_end = {{end date|1993|5|3|df=yes}} | predecessor = Tom Rideout | successor = Paul Shelley | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|02|13}} | birth_place = Wild Cove, White Bay, Newfoundland | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|05|17|1936|02|13}} | death_place = Wild Cove, White Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | spouse = {{Plainlist| * Jean Simms * {{marriage|Maxine Butler|1978}} }} | party = Liberal | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Fisherman | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Harold Norman George Small'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Harold Norman George Small |url=https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21127150/harold-norman-george-small |website=Tribute Archive |publisher=Foster Funeral Home |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> (February 13, 1936 – May 17, 2021) was a Newfoundlander and Canadian politician. He served as the member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (MHA) for Baie Verte-White Bay from 1991 to 1993.
== Background ==
Small was born in the fishing village of Wild Cove as the son of George and Bessie Small. He initially worked at the Advocate Mines in Baie Verte. Following the death of his first wife and one of his sons, he returned to Wild Cove with his brothers in 1972 to work as a fisherman and sealer so that he could "be [his] own boss."<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Small brothers of Wild Cove |journal=Decks Awash |date=August 1975 |volume=4 |issue=4 |page=10 |url=https://dai.mun.ca/pdfs/cns_decks/DA_Vol04_No04.pdf |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>
Small was appointed to the Fisheries Loan Board in 1978 by provincial Minister of Fisheries Walter C. Carter as its representative in the "North East Coast."<ref>{{cite news |title=Members of the Fisheries Loan Board |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/nl_gazette/id/23924/rec/3 |access-date=13 April 2025 |publisher=The Newfoundland Gazette |date=11 August 1978}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Carter announces loan board to be reorganized |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_news/id/53448/rec/14 |publisher=Green Bay News |date=16 August 1978}}</ref> He was one of the founding members of the Canadian Sealers' Association, a cooperative which was established in 1982 in response to the anti-seal hunt protests led by Greenpeace.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Plenty of seals, but who wants them? |journal=Decks Awash |date=September–October 1990 |volume=19 |issue=5 |pages=30–31 |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_decks/id/5607/rec/10 |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bartlett |first1=Wilfred |title=Remembering Harold Small |url=https://thenavigatormagazine.com/remembering-harold-small/ |publisher=The Navigator |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> He was also a director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Rural Development Association in 1983.<ref>{{cite news |title=Development association elects slate |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/westernstar/id/192600/rec/3 |access-date=13 April 2025 |publisher=The Western Star |date=4 April 1983}}</ref>
== Politics ==
Small ran as the Liberal candidate for the district of Baie Verte-White Bay in the 1985 election, which he lost to incumbent Progressive Conservative (PC) MHA Tom Rideout. When Rideout resigned from the House of Assembly in 1990 after being appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Small successfully ran as the Liberal candidate in the subsequent by-election to succeed him. He was appointed to the Resource Committee by Premier Clyde Wells.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forty-First General Assembly - Fourth Session - 1992-1993 - Resource Committee |url=https://www.assembly.nl.ca/Committees/StandingCommittees/Resource/ga41session4/ |website=Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> In the 1993 general election, he was defeated by his PC opponent Paul Shelley.
Small thereafter went into retirement in Wild Cove, where he died on May 17, 2021.
== Electoral history ==
{{Election box begin | title=1993 Newfoundland general election: Baie Verte-White Bay}} |- {{CANelec |CA|PC|Paul Shelley|3,172|62.48|–}} {{CANelec |CA|Liberal|'''Harold Small'''|1,830|36.04|–}} {{CANelec |CA|NDP|Rose Howe|75|1.48|–}} {{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|5,077|99.82|}} {{CANelec/total|Total rejected ballots|9|0.18|–}} {{CANelec/total|Total votes|5,086|73.27|–}} {{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|6,941|}} {{CANelec/gain|NL|PC|Liberal|–}} {{end}}
{{Election box begin | title=1985 Newfoundland general election: Baie Verte-White Bay}} |- {{CANelec |CA|PC|Tom Rideout|2,532|51.87|{{decrease}}4.19}} {{CANelec |CA|Liberal|'''Harold Small'''|2,127|43.58|{{decrease}}0.36}} {{CANelec |CA|NDP|Richard Shelley|222|4.55|–}} {{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|4,881|99.73|}} {{CANelec/total|Total rejected ballots|13|0.27}} {{CANelec/total|Total votes|4,894|82.42|{{increase}}8.33}} {{CANelec/total|Eligible voters|5,938|}} {{CANelec/hold|NL|PC|{{decrease}}2.28}} {{end}}
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