Bill Berezowsky

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

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{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| name =Bill Berezowsky

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| constituency_AM = Prince Albert East-Cumberland

| assembly = Saskatchewan Legislative

| predecessor =Lorne Earl Blanchard

| successor =Norman MacAuley

| term_start = 1952

| term_end = 1971

| birth_name = William John Berezowsky

| birth_date = January 6, 1904

| birth_place = Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|1|17|1904|1|6}}

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| party =Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

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| occupation=Farmer

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William John Berezowsky (January 6, 1904 – January 17, 1974) was a Canadian businessman, farmer, civil servant and political figure in Saskatchewan, born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He represented Cumberland from 1952 until 1967, then Prince Albert East-Cumberland from 1967 until 1971, in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and then New Democratic Party (NDP) member.

He came to western Canada with his family in 1908 and was educated in Winnipeg, Prince Albert, and Saskatoon. Before his political service, Berezowsky worked for the railway, taught school, worked on the family farm, and as a prospector. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force{{cite web |url=http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/items/index.php/berezowsky-william-j-2;rad |title=Berezowsky, William J. |publisher=Saskatchewan Archival Information Network |accessdate=2012-04-22}} during World War II. Berezowsky was staff training superintendent for the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources from 1948 to 1952. He also served as secretary-treasurer for the rural municipality of Garden River No. 490, Saskatchewan from 1927 to 1943 and as president and secretary for the Meath Park Board of Trade.{{cite web |url=http://docs.legassembly.sk.ca/legdocs/Legislative%20Assembly/Hansard/17L4S/740225Hansard.pdf |title=Hansard |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan |date=February 25, 1974 |accessdate=2012-04-22}} He was not a candidate in the 1971 Saskatchewan general election. He ran for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1972 Canadian federal election, losing to Progressive Conservative incumbent and former prime minister John Diefenbaker in the Prince Albert riding.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA19 |title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present |page=19 |last=Quiring |first=Brett |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center Press |ISBN=0889771650 |year=2004 |accessdate=2012-04-22}}

Berezowsky died in 1974, at the age of 70. The W.J. Berezowsky School was named in his honour.{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=500870 |title=Buckland's heritage |page=40 |year=1980 |author=Buckland History Book Committee |accessdate=2012-04-22}}

{{1972 Canadian federal election/Prince Albert}}