Ovide Alakannuark
MLA for Akulliq
In office
1999–2004
Succeeded bySteve Mapsalak
Personal details
Born(1938-12-25)December 25, 1938[1]
Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada
DiedOctober 7, 2019(2019-10-07) (aged 80)
Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Canada
Political partynon-partisan
consensus government

Ovide Alakannuark (December 25, 1938 – October 7, 2019) was a Canadian territorial level politician from Pelly Bay, Northwest Territories (now Kugaaruk, Nunavut).[2] He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 1999 until 2004.

Alakannuark was elected in the 1999 Nunavut general election. He defeated candidate Steve Mapsalak by just 25 votes to win the Akulliq electoral district. He only served a single term in the Legislature deciding not to run for re-election when it was dissolved in 2004.[3]

He attempted a return to politics running in rerun for the Akulliq district finishing a distant third on March 2, 2009.[4] The two front runners Steve Mapsalak and John Ningark had also served as MLAs in the Nunavut Legislature. He died on October 7, 2019, at the age of 80.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. 1972. ISBN 9780787660482.
  2. ↑ The Canadian Parliamentary Guide
  3. ↑ "Nunavut Votes 2004 Akulliq Profile". CBC News. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  4. ↑ "Official Candidates List" (PDF). Elections Nunavut. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
  5. ↑ Speaker of legislative assembly pays homage to the late Ovide Alakannuark
  6. ↑ Ovide Alakannuak passes on


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