Paul Delorey

Paul Alfred Delorey (May 3, 1949 – January 1, 2021)[1] was a Canadian curler, territorial level politician, and speaker of the Northwest Territories (NWT) Legislature.[2]

Paul Delorey
MLA for Hay River North
In office
1999–2011
Preceded byfirst member
Succeeded byRobert Bouchard
Personal details
Born(1949-05-03)May 3, 1949
Guysborough, Nova Scotia
DiedJanuary 1, 2021(2021-01-01) (aged 71)
Political partynon-partisan
consensus government
Occupationcurler

Curling

Delorey was an avid curler. He represented the NWT/Yukon at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 1987. In 1994 Team Paul Delorey finished in fifth place at the Canadian North Arctic Briar.[3]

He was also on Team Canada in the Strathcona Cup Championships in Scotland in 1998. He has coached junior curling for 22 years and was a fully qualified Level 2 coach. He also served as a director on the NWT Curling Association Board for three years and as the president of the Hay River Curling Club for five years. Delorey was a member of the Governor General's Curling Club of Canada.

Politics

Delorey was elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the new electoral district of Hay River North for the 1999 Northwest Territories general election. He was re-elected to his second term by acclamation in the 2003 Northwest Territories general election. Delorey was elected to be the Speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislature on June 1, 2004.[4] He was re-elected in the 2007 Northwest Territories general election.

References
  1. In the house and on the ice, former Speaker Paul Delorey remembered
  2. Lumley, E. (2009). Canadian Who's Who 2009. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802040923. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  3. "1994 Canadian North Arctic Briar - Team Delorey". Curlingzone. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  4. "History of Northwest Territories Speaker 1975-present". Northwest Territories Legislature. Archived from the original on July 21, 2006. Retrieved 2007-09-08.


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