Famous People with Name Bryden

Marion Helen Bryden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marion Helen Bryden: is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990.Marion Bryden was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Thomas Wardle by almost 3,000 votes in the riding of Beaches—Woodbine. She defeated Wardle again by a narrower margin in the 1977 election. In the 1981 provincial election, Bryden defeated Progressive Conservative Paul Christie by only 324 votes amid provincial setbacks for the NDP. She supported Ian Deans for party leader in 1978 which was won by Michael Cassidy. She supported Bob Rae for the party leadership in 1982.

John G. Bryden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John G. Bryden: is a former Canadian Senator.A lawyer, former public servant and businessman, Bryden was summoned to the Senate as a Liberal by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, on November 23, 1994. He represented the province of New Brunswick until his resignation on October 31, 2009.

Walter Kenneth (Ken) Bryden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Walter Kenneth (Ken) Bryden: was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/NDP member of the Ontario legislature from 1959 to 1967, an economist, academic, civil servant and author. He was an early supporter and strategist for the CCF federally, in Ontario and Saskatchewan. Following the election of the first CCF government in North America, in Sasktachewan, in 1944, Saskatchewan CCF Premier Tommy Douglas appointed Bryden deputy minister of labour. Bryden drafted most of the province's labour laws which American union organizer Walter Reuther called the most advanced legislation in all of North America. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1959 provincial election representing the riding of Woodbine in Toronto's east end and became deputy leader of the party under Donald C. MacDonald. He was re-elected in 1963 before retiring in 1967. As a Member of Provincial Parliament, Bryden advocated the creation of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, opposed the creation of the Provincial Sales Tax and supported expansion of Toronto's subway system. Using their own money, Bryden and his federal counterpart Andrew Brewin opened the first constituency office in Canada.

John H. Bryden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John H. Bryden: is a Canadian politician, journalist, historian. Bryden was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada during the Liberal sweep of Ontario in the 1993 election. He was re-elected in the 1997 election for the riding of Wentworth-Burlington, and again in the 2000 election, in the riding of Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Aldershot.

John Bryden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Bryden: was a Scottish-born businessman and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Nanaimo from 1875 to 1876 and North Nanaimo from 1894 to 1900 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. He was president of the Albion Iron Works, treasurer for the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and vice-president for the Union Colliery of British Columbia. The 1890 Coal Mines Regulation Act, provincial legislation, prevented persons of Chinese origin from working underground in coal mines. Bryden launched a legal challenge against the use of Chinese workers underground by the Union Colliery, with the intent of having the legality of the act reviewed: this resulted in the act being struck down since it was found that it interfered with federal powers. In 1875, he was elected to the council for Nanaimo and then to the British Columbia assembly; he resigned from the assembly in 1876. Bryden was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1900. Bryden died in Esquimault at the age of 81.