Elizabeth Amer
Elizabeth Amer | |
|---|---|
| Toronto City Councillor for Ward 5 | |
| In office 1988–1994 | |
| Preceded by | Dale Martin |
| Succeeded by | Dan Leckie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1938 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Elizabeth Amer (born 1938) is a Canadian politician who served on Toronto City Council as councillor for Ward 5 from 1988 to 1994.
Life and career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended New Toronto Secondary School. She ran in the 1988 Toronto municipal election, winning a seat as the councillor for Ward 5.[1]
She successfully ran again in the 1991 Toronto municipal election, serving until the end of her term in 1994. She did not run for re-election in the 1994 Toronto municipal election.
In 1990, Amer opposed a Toronto city council resolution supporting a bid by the City of Toronto for the 1996 Olympic Games.[2]
Amer was on the Toronto Mayor's Committee on Aging in 1993. [3]
Amer co-authored the book Taking Action: Working Together for Positive Change in Your Community, a grassroots organizing guide.[4] She also authored the book Yes We Can - How to Organize Citizen Action.[5]
She was an editor of a local Toronto Island community newspaper, the Goose and Duck, in the early 1970s.[6][7]
As of 2005, Amer had lived on Toronto Islands for "more than 40 years" and was a leader in the Toronto Islands community effort to fight eviction in the 1970s and 1980s.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Amer was the 2015 recipient of the Community Service Award 25 Years, from the Harbourfront Community Centre.[14]
References
- ↑ "The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada". 17 November 1988.
- ↑ "Allan lamport". 7 April 2024.
- ↑ "Committee Transcript 1993-Mar-09 | Legislative Assembly of Ontario".
- ↑ https://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/6532242/used/Taking%20Action%3A%20Working%20Together%20for%20Positive%20Change%20in%20Your%20Community
- ↑ Amer, Elizabeth (1980). Yes We Can!: How to Organize Citizen Action. Synergistics Consulting Limited. ISBN 978-0-9690371-0-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Toronto Citizen June 14 edition , Volume 3 , Number 11 page 8
- ↑ https://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/TorontoCitizen/TorCitizen-19720601.pdf
- ↑ "The Future of the Toronto Island Airport: The Issues" (PDF). Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront. 1989.
- ↑ "Alison Gzowski Revisits a Standoff That Shook the City". The Globe and Mail. 23 July 2005.
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/06/world/toronto-s-besieged-islanders-are-fighting-to-turn-the-tide.html
- ↑ https://torontolife.com/city/the-year-of-the-flood/
- ↑ "A year after the flood, Toronto Islands rebuild for storms yet to come - NOW Magazine". 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "Reconciliation on Toronto Islands - NOW Magazine". 12 November 2018.
- ↑ https://waterfrontnc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015-AnnualReport.pdf
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