Background
DANSON, Bamett Barney Jerome was born on February 8, 1921 in Toronto. Son of Joseph B. and Saidie Eleanor Wolfe Danson.
DANSON, Bamett Barney Jerome was born on February 8, 1921 in Toronto. Son of Joseph B. and Saidie Eleanor Wolfe Danson.
Public and High Schools, Toronto.
Served Queen's Own Rifles of Canada 1939-1945. Joined Joseph; Chairman Danson Corporation Ltd. 1953; Member of Parliament for York North 1968-1979.
Former; Chairman Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence. Pari. Secretary to Prime Minister Trudeau 1970-1972. Minister of State for Urban Affairs 1974-1976.
Minister of National Defence November 1976-1979. President United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat) 1976. Chair, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., CSPG Consultants, Back Association of Canada, Arms Control Centre, Ottawa, Institute for Political Involvement, Toronto.
Director Opera Ballet Hall Corporation of Toronto, Victoria and Grey Trust Company, Scintrex Ltd., Atlantic Council of Canada, Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, Winchester Group Ltd. Chairman Canada/United States Interparl. Group; Delegate to Interparl.
Conference on European Co-operation and Security 1973. Former Chairman Society of Plastics Industry in Canada. President Dash-Air Inc., Toronto.
Director Emeritus Canadian Council of Native Business. Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.
Standing Committee on Finance, Trade and Economics Affairs, former. Commonwealth team of observers scrutinizing Uganda elections December 1980. Canadian NATO Pari. Association, Canadian Group Inter-Parl.
Union; Board Society of Plastics Industry in New York, Canadian Manufacturers Association, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Algoma Central Railway, General Steelwares Ltd., Urban Transportation Development Corporation, Ballet Opera House Corporation, Toronto.
Married Isobel Bull in 1943.