1. Professional history

2. Family

3. Honours

4. References

He died of pancreatic cancer shortly after midnight on October 23, 2009, hours after the Olympic Flame was lit at the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay, in Olympia, Greece ^[3][4]

Professional history

Poole graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1954,^[5] with a degree in civil engineering. He subsequently entered the field of real estate development (in which position he hired B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, then a teenager, as a labourer; Poole later joked that he had given Campbell "his first job", and that by choosing Poole to chair VANOC, Campbell "gave me my last").^[6] Poole co-founded Daon Development Corporation, the second-largest real estate development company in North America until its collapse in the early 1980s recession when it was purchased by Bell Canada Enterprises.^[1]

Family

Jack Poole was born on April 13, 1933 at Mortlach, Saskatchewan. He was the youngest child of John (Jack) Vigors Poole and his wife Edith W. Goalen who had one daughter and two sons (Betty, George and Jack). Mr. Poole worked at the grain elevator after his Massey-Harris farm equipment dealership went broke during the Depression and Mrs. Poole was the local postmistress.^[7]

Jack was a sixth generation Metis through an 18th century British ancestor who had arrived in Moose Factory on James Bay in 1776 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company and married a Cree woman. After receiving his Aboriginal Achievement Award in 2007, Jack is quoted as saying: “I think I’m six generations removed from the Cree lady, but I have a Métis card, and by definition, in Canada, I’m an aboriginal person. I’ve always been very proud of this fact-to have Canadian roots that go that far back.” ^[8]

His father John "Jack" Poole was a grain dealer.^[1] He is survived by his second wife Darlene, four daughters, a stepson and his extended family. One of his grandsons, Blake Hawksworth, is a Major League Baseball pitcher. His granddaughter Erin Hawksworth is a reporter.^[9]

Honours

Poole was made a member of the Order of British Columbia in 2003,^[10] an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006,^[11] and a member of the Order of the Sash by the Metis Nation British Columbia in March 2007.^[12]

To honour his work and achievement for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics, the former Thurlow Plaza^[13] was renamed Jack Poole Plaza^[14] in his memory. The external cauldron for the games was chosen to be built at the Jack Poole Plaza as well.

References

• Proposed Australian constitutional referendum, 2013
• Proposed Basque referendum, 2008
• Proposed bill of rights
• Proposed cabinet of Donald Trump
• Proposed Catalan independence referendum
• Proposed cession of the Gambia to France
• Proposed Chinese universal citizen rating system
• Proposed coat of arms of Macedonia
• Proposed commuter rail in the Phoenix metropolitan area
• Proposed Councils In Sydney
• Proposed Darfurian referendum
• Proposed developments of Manchester Metrolink
• Proposed directly elected mayor for the Dublin metropolitan area
• Proposed directly elected mayor for the Dublin Metropolitan Area
• Proposed expansion of the New York subway
• Proposed Federation of the Philippines
• Proposed Flag of North West England
• Proposed independence referendum in Scotland
• Proposed Irish withdrawal from the European Union
• Proposed Japanese constitutional referendum
• Proposed language families
• Proposed Las Vegas football stadium
• Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums
• Proposed merger between Disney and 21st Century Fox
• Proposed mergers and relocations of the Fitzroy Football Club