Members of the 15th Assembly Hon. Paul Delorey
MLA, Hay River North
Speaker
Paul Delorey was first elected to the 14th Legislative Assembly
as the Member for Hay River North on December 6th, 1999. Mr. Delorey
was then acclaimed to the 15th Legislative Assembly for a second
term of office on October 31, 2003, and on June 1, 2004 Mr. Delorey
was elected as Speaker of the 15th Legislative Assembly.
During his tenure in the 14th Legislative Assembly, Mr. Delorey
was a Member of the following Standing Committees: Governance and
Economic Development, Rules and Procedures, Accountability and Oversight
and served as the Deputy Chair of the Committee of the Whole. In
addition, he was a member of the Special Committee on the Implementation
of Self-Government and the Sunset Clause.
Prior to his first term of office, Mr. Delorey worked as a locomotive
engineer for Raillink Canada. Born in Guysborough, N.S., as the second
youngest child in a family of 13, he moved to Hay River in 1968.
Two years later, he began work for the Canadian National Railway
as a trainperson before advancing to a locomotive engineer.
Mr. Delorey has an extensive history of volunteering and community
service. He currently serves as the District Deputy for the Knights
of Columbus for the Northwest Territories. He has a total of 20 years
of service to the Knights of Columbus organization in the North.
He was the local representative for the United Transportation Union
for 10 years and sat on the Hay River Recreation Board for two years.
An avid curler, Mr. Delorey has represented the NWT/Yukon at the
Canadian Mixed Curling Championships in 1987 and represented Canada
in the Strathcona Cup Championships in Scotland in 1998. He has coached
junior curling for 22 years and is 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. Mr. Delorey is presently a member of the Governor
General's Curling Club of Canada.
Mr. Delorey and his wife Davida have four children, Michelle, Monique,
D'arcy, and Katrina. They are also the proud grandparents to four
grandchildren.
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Speakers Office:
P.O. Box 1320
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2L9
Tel: (867) 669-2233
Fax: (867) 873-0273
E-mail: paul_delorey@gov.nt.ca
Constituency Office:
Suite 202, 76 Capital Drive
Hay River, NT X0E 1G2
Tel: (867) 874-6301
Fax: (867) 874-6079
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