{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image =
| | name = Jake Ootes | caption = | birth_date ={{birth date and age|1942|8|5}} | birth_place =Schagen, Netherlands | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | constituency = Yellowknife Centre | term_start =1995 | term_end =2003 | predecessor =Brian Lewis | successor = Robert Hawkins | relations=Case Ootes (brother) | party = non-partisan<br />consensus government | occupation =publisher }} '''Jake Ootes''' (born August 5, 1942) is a retired territorial level politician and newspaper and magazine publisher from Northwest Territories, Canada.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Canadian Who's who|author=Lumley, E.|journal=Canadian Who's Who: With Which is Incorporated "Canadian Men and Women of the Time"|date=1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802049131|issn=0068-9963|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mv8LAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-08-20}}</ref>
==Early life and career==
Ootes was born in the Schagen, Netherlands, in 1942 <ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://johnschreiner.blogspot.ca/2009/12/dutch-treats-in-bc-wine-industry.html|title=John Schreiner on wine: Dutch treats in the B.C. wine industry|publisher=johnschreiner.blogspot.ca|accessdate=2015-08-20}}</ref> and moved with his family to Canada in 1952 and lived in Renfrew, Ontario. Ootes worked as reporters in newspapers in Ontario and then moved into the federal civil service in the 1960s.<ref name="celistawine">{{cite web|url=http://www.celistawine.com/about-us.html|title=ABOUT US - CELISTA ESTATE WINERY|publisher=celistawine.com|accessdate=2015-08-20|archive-date=2015-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906090800/http://www.celistawine.com/about-us.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Ootes began his career in politics working for the Northwest Territories Legislative Council in 1964 as a Hansard editor, he worked in that position until 1967. In 1967, Ootes became an Executive Assistant for Northwest Territories Commissioner Stuart Milton Hodgson. He served in that position until 1975.
Ootes left his position in the Commissioners office to buy a newspaper in 1975, he grew a small publishing business. Publishing newspapers and magazines until he sold his interests in 1995 to run for electoral politics.
Ootes was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1995 Northwest Territories general election winning the Yellowknife Centre district. He won his second term in office with 60% of the vote in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election. He retired from his seat at the dissolution of the legislative assembly in the 2003 election.
Ootes now owns Celista Estate Winery in Celista, British Columbia.<ref name="blogspot"/> Ootes has owned the winery since 1995 and moved to British Columbia in 2005.<ref name="celistawine"/>
His brother Case Ootes is a municipal councilor in Toronto, Ontario, and married to Margaret Ootes.<ref name="celistawine"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.parl.gc.ca/Infoparl/english/issue.htm?param=159&art=475 Interview: Jake Ootes, MLA Constitutional Evolution in the Western Arctic]
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