# Harold Small

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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1936–2021)}}
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| name = Harold Small
| honorific_suffix = [MHA](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_House_of_Assembly)
| alt = 
| caption =
| constituency_AM = [Baie Verte-White Bay](/source/Baie_Verte-Green_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](/source/Tom_Rideout)
| successor = [Paul Shelley](/source/Paul_Shelley_(politician))
| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|02|13}}
| birth_place = [Wild Cove, White Bay](/source/Wild_Cove%2C_White_Bay%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), [Newfoundland](/source/Dominion_of_Newfoundland)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|05|17|1936|02|13}}
| death_place = Wild Cove, White Bay, [Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador), Canada
| spouse              = {{Plainlist|
* Jean Simms
* {{marriage|Maxine Butler|1978}}
}}
| party = [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador)
| relations =
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| occupation =
| profession = Fisherman
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'''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](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador) and [Canadian](/source/Canadians) politician. He served as the member of the [Newfoundland House of Assembly](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_House_of_Assembly) (MHA) for [Baie Verte-White Bay](/source/Baie_Verte-Green_Bay) from 1991 to 1993.

== Background ==

Small was born in the fishing village of [Wild Cove](/source/Wild_Cove%2C_White_Bay%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) as the son of George and Bessie Small. He initially worked at the Advocate Mines in [Baie Verte](/source/Baie_Verte%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador). 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](/source/MUN_Extension_Service) |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](/source/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](/source/Cooperative) which was established in 1982 in response to the [anti-seal hunt protests](/source/Seal_hunting) led by [Greenpeace](/source/Greenpeace).<ref>{{cite journal |title=Plenty of seals, but who wants them? |journal=[Decks Awash](/source/MUN_Extension_Service) |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](/source/The_Western_Star_(Corner_Brook)) |date=4 April 1983}}</ref>

== Politics ==

Small ran as the [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) candidate for the district of [Baie Verte-White Bay](/source/Baie_Verte-Green_Bay) in the [1985 election](/source/1985_Newfoundland_general_election), which he lost to incumbent [Progressive Conservative](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) (PC) MHA [Tom Rideout](/source/Tom_Rideout). When Rideout resigned from the House of Assembly in 1990 after being appointed to the [Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada](/source/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](/source/Premier_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) [Clyde Wells](/source/Clyde_Wells_(politician)).<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](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_House_of_Assembly) |access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref> In the [1993 general election](/source/1993_Newfoundland_general_election), he was defeated by his PC opponent [Paul Shelley](/source/Paul_Shelley_(politician)).

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](/source/1993_Newfoundland_general_election): [Baie Verte-White Bay](/source/Baie_Verte-Green_Bay)}}
|-
{{CANelec |CA|PC|[Paul Shelley](/source/Paul_Shelley_(politician))|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](/source/1985_Newfoundland_general_election): [Baie Verte-White Bay](/source/Baie_Verte-Green_Bay)}}
|-
{{CANelec |CA|PC|[Tom Rideout](/source/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}}

== References ==

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Category:Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador MHAs
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Category:20th-century members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

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