Hazel McCallion, CM is a Canadian politician and businesswoman who served as the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario from 1978 until 2014. She is the first and current Chancellor of Sheridan College.
McCallion was born in the community of Port Daniel on the Gasp Coast of Quebec. Her father, Herbert Armand Journeaux , owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Amanda Maude Travers , was a homemaker and ran the family farm. The family also comprised two older sisters and two older brothers. After graduating from Quebec High School, she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but her family could not afford it. After beginning her career in Montreal with the Canadian Kellogg company, she was transferred to Toronto in 1942, where she helped set up the local office. McCallion left the business world in 1967 to devote her life to a career in politics.
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