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Gordon, who was born in Espanola, Ontario, served on that town's council in the 1960s before moving to Sudbury. He was elected to city council there in 1971, and became mayor in 1976. He served until 1981, and then ran in that year's provincial election as the Progressive Conservative candidate. He won that election and served until 1987, when he was defeated by Sterling Campbell in the Liberal sweep of David Peterson.

In 1991, Gordon ran again as mayor of Sudbury, and was re-elected. He served as the city's mayor until 2000, when the city and the Regional Municipality of Sudbury were amalgamated into the new city of Greater SudburyGreater Sudbury ( 2001 census population 155,219) is a city in Northern Ontario. Greater Sudbury was created in 2001 by amalgamating the cities and towns of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. It is the largest city in Northern Ontario in population, an. He ran for mayor of the new amalgamated city, and won that election as well.

Gordon's tenure as mayor of Sudbury was marked by efforts to diversify the city's miningSilver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials commonly recovered by mining include b-based economy. He was also, as the city's provincial representative in the early 1980s, a key supporter of the Science NorthScience North is an interactive science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The complex, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Ramsay Lake, just south o project, which has since become the city's and Northern OntarioNorthern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario, Canada, which lies north of Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario covers 1 million square kilometres and constitutes 90 per cent of the surface area of Onta's most successful tourist attraction.

In Gordon's single term as mayor of the amalgamated Greater Sudbury, however, the city council was somewhat undermined by voter doubts about the effectiveness and the appropriateness of the amalgamation project. Gordon announced his retirement from politics in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, and in that fall's municipal election, he was succeeded by David Courtemanche .