Hon. Peter Stollery (Bloor et Yonge/Toronto)
Biography
Appointed to the Senate by the late former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Senator Peter Stollery represents the province of Ontario and the Senatorial Division of Yonge and Bloor in Toronto. He has served in the Senate of Canada since July 6, 1981.
He is currently a Member of the Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs, for which he also serves as Chair. Over the years he has been involved with the Canada-Europe Interparliamentary Union. His areas of interest and specialization include foreign affairs, international economic affairs, and Latin America. Favourite pastimes include fly-fishing, cross-country cycling, and running.
Senator Stollery’s career has been extremely varied, and includes experience in both the private and public sectors. Most recently, in the public sector and outside the Senate, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1972 to 1981. During this time, he held positions including Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State and Minister of Communications (1980-81), and Chairman of the Parliamentary Caucus.
In the private sector, he has been a merchant, teacher, and travel writer. This includes periodically serving as a retail merchant at Frank Stollery’s Ltd., located in Toronto, for 24 years. It also includes serving as a teacher with Lycée Laperinne in Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria (1958-59), as the Algeria correspondent for Maclean’s magazine (1962), and as Organizational Chair for the Toronto Waterfront Park (1973-74).
Senator Stollery is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, and a Member of the National Liberal Club in London.
He was educated at various schools in Toronto, where he was also born on November 29, 1935.
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