Hazel McCallion

Hazel Mary Muriel Journeaux{{cite web|url=https://www.sheridancollege.ca/newsroom/news-releases/2023/01/remembering-chancellor-hazel-mccallion|title=Sheridan honours the life of Chancellor Hazel McCallion|date=January 29, 2023|website=Sheridan College|access-date=February 22, 2025}} was born on February 14, 1921, in Port Daniel, on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father, Herbert Armand Journeaux (1879–1944), owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Amanda Maude Travers (1876–1955),{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=13}} was a homemaker and ran the family farm. The family included two older sisters and two older brothers. After graduating from Quebec High School, she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal.

Journeaux began playing ice hockey in the late 1920s in Port Daniel with her two sisters, and was a forward on their team. She then joined a professional women's hockey team while attending school in Montreal, receiving $5 per game. The team was sponsored by Kik Cola and was part of a three-team women's league.{{cite web |url=http://www.hhof.com/htmlTimeCapsule/wmspla04.shtml |title=Profiles of Notable Women in Hockey |publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame |access-date=August 28, 2011 |archive-date=March 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330124418/http://www.hhof.com/htmlTimeCapsule/wmspla04.shtml |url-status=dead }} She wanted to attend university, but her family could not afford it.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hazel-mccallion-dead-at-101-1.6730009|title='Hurricane Hazel' McCallion, longtime mayor of Mississauga, Ont., dead at 101|first=Chris|last=Iorfida|publisher=CBC News|date=2023-01-29|access-date=2023-02-16}} After beginning her career in Montreal with the Canadian division of engineering firm Kellogg, she was transferred to Toronto in 1942, where she helped set up the local office. She left the business world in 1967 to devote her life to a career in politics.

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McCallion began her political career in Streetsville (now part of Mississauga). Her first campaign was in 1964 for the position of deputy reeve. It was unsuccessful, and she later considered herself to be a victim of "dirty tricks".{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=33}} Having later been appointed the chairman of the Streetsville Planning Board, she was elected as deputy reeve in the 1967 election{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=34}} and was appointed reeve in 1968.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=35}} She was elected as Streetsville's mayor in 1970, serving until 1973.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=38}}

The Town of Streetsville was amalgamated with the Town of Mississauga and the Town of Port Credit to form the City of Mississauga at the beginning of 1974; McCallion advocated unsuccessfully to preserve Streetsville as a separate municipality.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|pp=42{{endash}}51}} In the same year she was elected to the Mississauga City Council, and retained her seat on the council by acclamation in the 1976 municipal election.{{cite news |title=Some upsets, a close votes and a no to regional government |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=December 7, 1976 |page=11 |first1=Rudy |last1=Platiel |first2=Arnold |last2=Bruner}} By the time she was elected mayor of Mississauga, she had sat on virtually every committee in Peel Region and the City of Mississauga. She had also served on the executive of many federal and provincial committees and associations.{{cite web | url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/mississauga-mourns-the-passing-of-former-mayor-hazel-mccallion-810530985.html | title=Mississauga Mourns the Passing of Former Mayor Hazel McCallion|agency=CNW Group|date=January 29, 2023|access-date=January 30, 2023}}

McCallion was first elected mayor in 1978, defeating popular incumbent Ron Searle by about 3,000 votes.{{cite news |title=Plain talk in Mississauga wins Hazel mayor's job |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=November 14, 1978 |page=A14}} She had been in office only a few months when the 1979 Mississauga train derailment occurred, in which a Canadian Pacific train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in a heavily populated area near Mavis Road. A large explosion and fire ensued as hazardous chemicals spilled. McCallion, along with the Peel Regional Police and other governmental authorities, oversaw the evacuation of the city. There were no deaths or serious injuries during the week-long emergency, and Mississauga gained renown for the successful evacuation of its then 200,000 residents.{{cite web | url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2024/01/12/blasts-miracle-no-one-injured-evacuation-of-22000-goes-smoothly.html | title=Blast's miracle: No one injured, evacuation of 220,00 goes smoothly | website=Toronto Star | date=January 29, 2023 }}

During McCallion's terms in office, Mississauga grew from a small collection of towns and villages to one of Canada's largest cities, with much of the growth occurring after the 1976 election of René Lévesque's Parti Québécois government sparked an exodus of Anglophones and corporations from Montreal to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).{{cite news |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_200201/ai_n9069631/pg_1 |title=Westward ho? The shifting geography of corporate power in Canada |publisher=Journal of Canadian Studies |year=2002 |first=William K |last=Carroll |access-date=September 1, 2007 |archive-date=September 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902121900/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_200201/ai_n9069631/pg_1 |url-status=dead }}{{cite encyclopedia|last=Linteau |first=Paul-Andre |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/montreal#EconomyandLabour |title=Montreal: Economy and Labour |date=April 7, 2009 |access-date=December 1, 2019 }}{{cite web |last=Couture |first=Patrick |website=Chez Couture |url=http://www.republiquelibre.org/cousture/LEVESQUE.HTM |title=René Lévesque: La loi 101 |trans-title=Rene Levesque: Bill 101 |language=fr |access-date=September 1, 2007}} The high rate of low-density growth led to McCallion being nicknamed "Queen of Sprawl" by urban planning critics.{{Cite news |last=Mendleson |first=Rachel |date=January 19, 2023 |title=Greenbelt Council does about-face on safeguarding protected lands with Hazel McCallion at the helm |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/01/19/greenbelt-council-does-about-face-on-safeguarding-protected-lands-with-hazel-mccallion-at-the-helm.html |access-date=January 20, 2023}}

McCallion was easily re-elected throughout her tenure as mayor, with no serious challengers coming close to unseating her.{{cite news |url=http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/ted_woloshyn/2010/09/17/15391806.html |author-link=Ted Woloshyn |first=Ted |last=Woloshyn |title=Pretenders testing contender Hazel |date=September 17, 2010 |newspaper=Toronto Sun |access-date=October 29, 2011 |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919164728/http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/ted_woloshyn/2010/09/17/15391806.html |url-status=dead }} She received more than 90% of the votes at the 1997, 2000 and 2003 mayoral elections. She never campaigned during elections and refused to accept political donations, instead asking her supporters to donate the money to charity.{{cite web | url=https://www.thestar.com/News/Obituary/2023/01/29/hazel-mccallion-longtime-mississauga-mayor-dies-at-age-101.html | title=Hazel McCallion, longtime Mississauga mayor, dies at age 101 | website=Toronto Star | date=January 29, 2023 }} Her final term as mayor, won in the election of October 2010, was her twelfth consecutive term.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mccallion-wins-12th-term-as-mississauga-mayor-1.904441 |title=McCallion wins 12th term as Mississauga mayor |work=CBC News |date=October 25, 2010 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation }} She announced during her final term that she would not be running for re-election in the 2014 municipal elections{{cite news |url=http://www.680news.com/2014/03/17/former-mp-steve-mahoney-enters-mississauga-mayoral-race/|title = Former MP Steve Mahoney enters Mississauga mayoral race|work=680 News |date=March 17, 2014}} and endorsed councillor and former federal member of Parliament Bonnie Crombie to replace her as Mayor.{{cite news |title=Hazel McCallion endorses Bonnie Crombie in Mississauga mayoral race |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/hazel-mccallion-endorses-bonnie-crombie-in-mississauga-mayoral-race/article21076110/ |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |first=Renata |last=D'Aliesio |date=October 12, 2014}} Crombie defeated former city councillor, member of Provincial Parliament and federal cabinet minister Steve Mahoney to win the 2014 municipal election.{{cite news|last1=Loney|first1=Heather|title=Bonnie Crombie wins Mississauga mayoral election|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1637479/mississauga-elects-new-mayor-to-replace-hazel-mccallion/|access-date=December 16, 2014|work=Global News|date=October 27, 2014}}

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In 2012, McCallion was the third-highest paid mayor in Canada, with a salary of $187,057.{{cite news |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/the-highest-paid-mayors-in-canada-s-9-largest-cities-1384357797-slideshow/mayor-mississauga-ont-hazel-mccallion-92-charged-being-photo-163317882.html |title=The 9 highest paid mayors in Canada |work=Yahoo! News |date=November 13, 2013 |access-date=June 12, 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714234200/https://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/the-highest-paid-mayors-in-canada-s-9-largest-cities-1384357797-slideshow/mayor-mississauga-ont-hazel-mccallion-92-charged-being-photo-163317882.html |url-status=dead }}

In a first-person account for Canadian magazine Confidence Bound, McCallion credited her faith with giving her energy, and said she still did her own household chores. "Housework and gardening are great forms of exercise and keep one humble."{{cite magazine |first=Archie |last=D'Cruz |date=2007 |title=Hazel: I don't believe in regrets |url=http://www.confidencebound.ca/content/view/33/31/ |magazine=Confidence Bound |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123346/http://www.confidencebound.ca/content/view/33/31/ |archive-date=October 6, 2014 }}

On her 90th birthday in 2011, McCallion was assessed by Dr. Barbara Clive, a geriatrician, who stated that "at 90 her gait is perfect, her speech is totally sharp and she has the drive to still run this city. She's the poster child for seniors".{{cite news |first=San |last=Grewal |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/mississauga/mccallion/article/938547--hazel-mccallion-at-90-the-poster-child-for-seniors |title=Hazel McCallion at 90: 'the poster child for seniors' |work=Toronto Star |date=February 14, 2011}}

In 1982, McCallion was found guilty of a conflict of interest on a planning decision by the Ontario High Court of Justice due to not absenting herself from a council meeting on a matter in which she had an interest. In 1983, The Municipal Conflict of Interest Act would have required her to vacate her seat and prohibited her from running for the following term.{{cite CanLII|litigants=Graham v. McCallion|link=|year=1982|court=onsc|num=2014|format=canlii|parallelcite=39 OR (2d) 740|date=September 30, 1982 |courtname=auto|juris=}}{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=2cdaa7a4-80da-4b03-a824-273c31c2b962 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129130731/http://www.nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=2cdaa7a4-80da-4b03-a824-273c31c2b962 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |work=National Post |first=Kelly |last=Patrick |date=April 8, 2006 |title=Hazel McCallion }}

In 2009, McCallion was the focus of public opinion when it was alleged that she failed to disclose a conflict of interest when attending meetings that concerned her son's company, World Class Developments Ltd.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/09/30/hazel_mccallion_didnt_declare_conflict_probe.html |title=McCallion didn't declare conflict: Probe |work=Toronto Star |date=September 30, 2009 |last=Gombu |first=Phinjo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004151219/http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/703050 |archive-date=October 4, 2009 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/posted-toronto/mississagua-inquiry-world-class-enlisted-mayor-hazel-mccallions-help |title=Mississauga inquiry: World Class enlisted Mayor Hazel McCallion's help |first=Megan |last=O'Toole |newspaper=National Post |date=August 18, 2010|access-date=August 3, 2021}} On October 3, 2011, Judge Douglas Cunningham found McCallion "acted in a 'real and apparent conflict of interest' while pushing hard for a real estate deal that could have put millions of dollars in her son's pocket."{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/mississauga/article/1063465--mccallion-a-real-and-apparent-conflict-of-interest?bn=1 |title=McCallion: a 'real and apparent' conflict of interest |first=David |last=Rider |newspaper=Toronto Star | date=October 3, 2011}} On June 14, 2013, charges under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act were dismissed as World Class Developments did not have a financial interest as defined under the Act, and the application was also statute-barred.{{cite news|title = Hazel McCallion cleared on conflict of interest charges| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hazel-mccallion-cleared-on-conflict-of-interest-charges-1.1378559 |date = June 14, 2013| work=CBC News}} In a later ruling concerning costs, Judge J. Sproat said, "Out of seven major issues, Mayor McCallion was successful on only three. On two of the three issues Mayor McCallion was successful, not because of any prudence or diligence, but only because World Class Developments's project had not progressed at a faster pace."{{cite CanLII|litigants=Hazineh v. McCallion|link=|year=2013|court=onsc|num=6619|format=|pinpoint=|parallelcite=par. 20|date=October 24, 2013}}

While party preferences are not usually expressed in Canadian municipal politics, McCallion supported the Liberal Party at the federal and provincial levels, and was asked in 1982 to consider running for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.{{cite news |last= Bascaramurty|first= Dakshana|date= June 27, 2014|title= For Hazel McCallion, the campaign never stops |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/lunch-with-hazel-mccallion/article19380510/?page=all|newspaper= The Globe and Mail|location= Toronto }} She endorsed Kathleen Wynne on the convention floor of the 2013 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election,{{cite news |first=Susanna |last=Kelley |url=http://ontarionewswatch.com/onw-news.html?id=525 |title=Hoskins Discussed Health Ministry, Sousa Finance, with Pupatello Prior To Supporting Wynne: Senior Sources |work=Ontario News Watch |date=February 7, 2013 |access-date=June 15, 2014 |archive-date=February 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210033022/http://ontarionewswatch.com/onw-news.html?id=525 |url-status=dead }} and later endorsed her and her party in the 2014 Ontario general election.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/mississauga-mayor-hazel-mccallion-endorses-kathleen-wynne-1.2642660 |title=Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion endorses Kathleen Wynne |work=CBC News |date=May 14, 2014}} Otherwise, McCallion was sometimes described as a small-c conservative.{{cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=f68e3571-d459-4ca2-85e7-c230f9242ec0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129135237/http://www.nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=f68e3571-d459-4ca2-85e7-c230f9242ec0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |date=November 9, 2007 |first=Kelly |last=Grant |title=McCallion shows Miller how it's done |work=National Post }} McCallion endorsed Liberal leader Justin Trudeau for the 2015 election.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Fr3sWRDfQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/R5Fr3sWRDfQ |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Jean Chretien's Canada Flag 50th anniv UTM speech—with Justin Trudeau and Hazel McCallion |author=Mississauga Watch |publisher=YouTube |date=February 22, 2015}}{{cbignore}} She also appeared in a notable television advertisement for the federal Liberals during the final days of the 2015 election.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoTsne3QxM8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015015020/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoTsne3QxM8&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=October 15, 2015 |url-status=dead|title=Do I look scared to you? |author=Liberal Video channel |publisher=YouTube |date=October 14, 2015}} In the 2018 Ontario provincial election, McCallion endorsed PC leader Doug Ford, who went on to become Premier of Ontario.{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/05/24/hazel-mccallion-doug-ford_a_23442890/ |title='Hurricane' Hazel Endorses Doug Ford To Become 'People's Premier' |date=May 24, 2018 |work=HuffPost Canada |access-date=March 6, 2019}}

In 2007, McCallion responded to the federal government's refusal to give any of the Canadian goods and services tax to cities, a funding source long requested by many municipalities across Canada, by planning a five percent surcharge on property taxes in the city. She was able to have the levy introduced and approved on the same day by Mississauga City council. Most media coverage, as well as Toronto mayor David Miller, noted that McCallion was arguably one of the few mayors in the country with the political capital to implement such a strategy.{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Kelly |date=November 9, 2007 |title=McCallion shows Miller how it's done |pages=13 |work=National Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103810214/mccallion-shows-miller-how-its-done/ |access-date=June 15, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}

McCallion was one of the first Canadian politicians to openly support the creation of a Palestinian state. Addressing the annual convention of the Canadian Arab Federation in 1983, she argued that Palestinian issues had been distorted by the national media and was quoted as saying, "The Palestinians need and require and deserve a country of their own. Why shouldn't they get it?"{{cite news |title=Palestinians get support from Mississauga mayor |work=Globe and Mail |date=May 23, 1983 |page=5}}

McCallion established the GTA Mayors' Committee in 1992. She brought together the 30 mayors, later adding the chair of Metropolitan Toronto and the four regional chairs to work cooperatively for the economic promotion of the GTA. From 1992 to January 2000, the committee, chaired by McCallion, was a strong voice on key issues affecting the future of the GTA. She was a founder and honorary co-chair of the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance.{{cite web |url=http://www.gfierheller.ca/component/content/article/7.html#section_f |title=The Talks – List |website=www.gfierheller.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322201741/http://www.gfierheller.ca/component/content/article/7.html |archive-date=March 22, 2010}}

In 1996, McCallion was appointed to the "Who Does What" panel. She was also appointed to two sub-panels: Assessment and Property Taxation Reform, and Emergency Services. She represented the Association of Municipalities of Ontario on the Electricity Transition Committee for the Ministry of Electricity, Science and Technology.{{cite web|url=https://www.mississauga.ca/hazel-mccallion-in-memory/life-and-legacy/|title=Hazel McCallion: Life and legacy|year=2023|website=City of Mississauga|access-date=January 30, 2023}}

McCallion is the first woman to hold such significant positions as president of the Streetsville and District Chamber of Commerce, president of the Anglican Young Peoples' Association of Canada, mayor of Streetsville, and mayor of Mississauga. She was responsible for the formation of Hazel's Hope, a campaign to fund health care for children afflicted with AIDS and HIV in southern Africa.{{cite web|title = Hazel's Hope – A Vision of World Citizenship|url = http://speeches.empireclub.org/62943/data?n=26|publisher = Empire Club of Canada|date = June 22, 2006}}

McCallion hosted an annual gala in Mississauga to raise money for arts and culture in the city.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/533657 |title=Mississauga parties with Regis and Hazel |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=November 9, 2008 |first=Jason |last=Miller}}

At the 1987 World Women's Hockey Tournament, the championship trophy was named the Hazel McCallion World Cup.{{cite book |title=On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History |page=80 |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Etue |first2=Megan K. |last2=Williams |publisher=Second Story Press |location=Toronto |date=1996 |isbn=0-929005-79-1}} McCallion was once a board member of the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League, and was instrumental in the construction of the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. She provided assistance to Don Cherry's group to bring an Ontario Hockey League franchise to the city in 1998, and she was instrumental in bringing the IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships to the city in 2000.{{cite news|title=Life of a legend|last=Posner|first=Michael|date=September 9, 2010|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto, Ontario|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/life-of-a-legend/article1379537/|access-date=January 30, 2023}}

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In November 2015, McCallion was appointed chief elder officer (CEO) of Revera Inc., to provide advice and counsel to the senior living sector company.{{cite news |url=http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/revera-appoints-hazel-mccallion-as-chief-elder-officer-544627452.html |title=Revera Appoints Hazel McCallion as Chief Elder Officer |work=News Wire |date=November 10, 2015}}

In September 2011, Sheridan College opened the doors to its Hazel McCallion Campus in Mississauga, which was greatly expanded in 2018, more than doubling its enrollment. Furthering her ties with the college, in 2016, McCallion was named Sheridan's first chancellor, as part of its bid to attain university status.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/02/23/sheridan-college-adds-hazel-mccallion-as-first-chancellor.html |title=Sheridan College adds Hazel McCallion as first chancellor |work=Toronto Star |first=Louise |last=Brown |date=February 23, 2016}} In February 2015, McCallion became a special advisor to the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), the Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto, providing advice on matters related to strategic development of the school.{{cite news |url=http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hazel-mccallion-94-takes-job-at-university-of-toronto-1.2250817 |title=Hazel McCallion, 94, takes job at University of Toronto |work=CTV News |date=February 24, 2015}}

In 2017 McCallion was appointed to the board of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, a position for which she accepted a three-year renewal in April 2022.{{Cite web |date=April 8, 2022 |title=Hazel McCallion, 101, accepts three-year contract extension working for Toronto Pearson |url=https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hazel-mccallion-101-accepts-three-year-contract-extension-working-for-toronto-pearson-1.5854243 |access-date=April 8, 2022 |website=Toronto |language=en}} In January 2019, Ontario Premier Doug Ford appointed McCallion as a special adviser.{{cite web |date=January 18, 2019 |title=Hazel McCallion appointed adviser to Ontario Premier Doug Ford |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/hazel-mccallion-appointed-adviser-to-ontario-premier-doug-ford-1.4259983 |work=CTV News}} She soon after said she wanted more details before accepting or declining,{{cite news |last=Stone |first=Laura |date=January 23, 2019 |title=Hazel McCallion says she hasn't formally accepted role as special adviser to Doug Ford |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-hazel-mccallion-says-she-hasnt-formally-accepted-role-as-doug-fords/}} but later decided to decline the job offer.{{Cite news |date=January 31, 2019 |title=Hazel McCallion turns down Ontario government's job offer |work=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hazel-mccallion-doug-ford-1.4999338 |url-status=live |access-date=April 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108005810/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hazel-mccallion-doug-ford-1.4999338 |archive-date=November 8, 2020}} In October 2022, McCallion was appointed the head of the Greenbelt Council advisory group by Premier Ford. In January 2023, she endorsed his plan to take protected areas out of the Greenbelt for housing development, calling it "brave".

Journeaux met her future husband, Sam McCallion (1923–1997),{{Cite web |title=Nominate a super volunteer for Sam McCallion Award |url=https://www.mississauga.com/community-story/3132801-nominate-a-super-volunteer-for-sam-mccallion-award/ |access-date=June 15, 2022 |website=Mississauga.com |date=February 28, 2013 |language=en-CA}} at an Anglican Church congregation in Toronto in 1951; they married on September 29 of that year.{{cite web |url=http://www.heritagemississauga.com/page/Hazel-McCallion |title=McCallion, Hazel |work=Cultural Heritage |publisher=Heritage Mississauga |access-date=August 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004061901/http://www.heritagemississauga.com/page/Hazel-McCallion |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }} As a marriage present from McCallion's in-laws, a piece of land near the village of Streetsville was given to the newlyweds, to which they moved in December 1951.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=30}} The couple had three children, and were married until Sam McCallion's death from Alzheimer's disease in 1997.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=33}} Their son Peter unsuccessfully ran for Mississauga Ward 9 councillor in the 2022 municipal election.{{cite news|title=Hazel McCallion's son registers as Mississauga political candidate|date=2022-08-19|publisher=InSauga|url=https://www.insauga.com/hazel-mccallions-son-registers-as-mississauga-council-candidate/|access-date=2023-02-17}}{{cite news|title=Live 2022 Mississauga municipal election results for mayor, council, and school board trustees|date=2022-10-24|publisher=InSauga|url=https://www.insauga.com/live-2022-mississauga-municipal-election-results-for-mayor-council-and-school-board-trustees/|access-date=2023-02-17}}

As a volunteer, McCallion also served as president of the Anglican Young People's Association of Canada, and later provided leadership as a district commissioner with the Girl Guides of Canada in the early 1960s.{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=122}} Before entering politics, she and her husband founded The Streetsville Booster in 1964.{{efn|since merged with the Mississauga News, part of the Metroland group of community newspapers.}}{{sfn|Urbaniak|2009|p=33}}

McCallion died from pancreatic cancer at home on January 29, 2023, at age 101.{{cite news|url = https://www.thestar.com/News/Obituary/2023/01/29/hazel-mccallion-longtime-mississauga-mayor-dies-at-age-101.html|title = Hazel McCallion, longtime Mississauga mayor, dies at age 101|last1 = Rider|first1 = David|last2 = Hurley|first2 = Janet|last3 = Funston|first3 = Mike|date = January 29, 2023|accessdate = January 29, 2023|newspaper = Toronto Star}}{{cite news|title=Funeral details announced for former longtime Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion|agency=The Canadian Press|date=February 2, 2023|newspaper=Toronto Star|location=Toronto, Ontario|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/02/02/funeral-details-announced-for-former-longtime-mississauga-mayor-hazel-mccallion.html|access-date=February 2, 2023}} A state funeral was held for McCallion on February 14, 2023, on what would have been her 102nd birthday. Her body lay in repose at Mississauga Civic Centre for two days, prior to her funeral at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre. Dignitaries attending the funeral included prime minister Justin Trudeau, former prime minister Jean Chrétien, and Ontario premier Doug Ford. Flags in Ontario were flown at half-mast on the day of her funeral.{{cite news|title=Former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion remembered as an icon at state funeral|last=Carter|first=Adam|date=February 14, 2023|work=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hazel-mccallion-funeral-1.6746571|access-date=February 16, 2023}}

In 2016, February 14 was renamed Hazel McCallion Day across Ontario in honour of her birthday.{{cite news |url=http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/7010523-hazel-mccallion-finally-gets-her-day |title=Hazel McCallion Finally Gets Her Day |work=Mississauga News |date=December 8, 2016 |first=Chris |last=Clay}}

The following have been conferred on McCallion:

• 1999: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her role in bringing German companies to Canada.{{cite web |title=Hazel McCallion – biography |url=https://ontlaw.com/bio/hazel-mccallion/ |access-date=August 3, 2022 |publisher=Speigel Nichols Fox LLP}}
• 2002: Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/125-5331|title=Her Worship Hazel McCallion|website=Governor General of Canada|year=2002|access-date=January 30, 2023}}
• 2003: Leadership in Public Service Award from the International Economic Development Council.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldmayor.com/manifestos05/mississauga_05.html |title=Hazel McCallion – Mayor of Mississauga |work=World Mayor |accessdate=January 29, 2023}}
• 2005: Runner-up for the World Mayor Award, behind Dora Bakoyannis of Athens.{{cite web |title=World Mayor Results 2005 |url=http://www.worldmayor.com/results05/worldmayor_results05.html#Anchor-The-47857 |work=World Mayor |first=Tann |last=vom Hove |publisher=City Mayors Foundation |access-date=June 18, 2014}}
• 2005: Member of the Order of Canada (CM).{{cite web |publisher=Trillium Giving |url=http://www.trilliumgiving.ca/page.aspx?pid=340 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202134251/http://www.trilliumgiving.ca/page.aspx?pid=340 |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |url-status=dead |title=Mayor Hazel McCallion, A health care champion close to all our hearts |date=2009}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-263|title = Mrs. Hazel McCallion|website=Governor General of Canada|year=2005|access-date=January 30, 2023}}
• 2007: President's Award from Professional Engineers Ontario.{{cite web |url=https://www.peo.on.ca/about-peo/awards/her-worship-hazel-mccallion-mayor-mississauga |title=Her Worship Hazel McCallion, Mayor of Mississauga |date=2007 |publisher=Professional Engineers Ontario}}
• 2010: Honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Toronto.{{cite web |url=http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Assets/Governing+Council+Digital+Assets/Boards+and+Committees/Committee+for+Honorary+Degrees/degreerecipients1850tillnow.pdf |title=University of Toronto Honorary Degree Recipients 1850–2016 |publisher=The Office of the Governing Council, University of Toronto |date=September 14, 2016}}
• 2012: Shahid Rassam unveiled a portrait of McCallion in support of the SickKids Foundation.{{cite news |title= Portrait of mayor unveiled |url=http://www.mississauga.com/whatson-story/3124595-portrait-of-mayor-unveiled/ |newspaper=The Mississauga News |date= March 19, 2012|access-date=January 30, 2023}}
• 2012: Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/126-103908|title=Hazel McCallion|website=Governor General of Canada|year=2012|access-date=January 30, 2023}}
• 2014: Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette, for her support of Japanese businesses in Mississauga and furthering of Canada–Japan relations.{{cite news |title=Mayor Hazel McCallion Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun |url=https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/mayor-hazel-mccallion-awarded-the-order-of-the-rising-sun/ |access-date=August 3, 2021 |publisher=City of Mississauga|date=June 10, 2014}}
• 2017: Key to the City of Mississauga.{{cite news |url=https://www.insauga.com/hazel-mccallion-set-to-receive-key-to-the-city-of-mississauga |title=Hazel McCallion Set to Receive Key to the City of Mississauga |work=InSauga |first=Ashley |last=Newport |date=April 12, 2017}}
• 2019: Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Ryerson University.{{Cite web|title=Meet Ryerson's 2019 honorary doctorates |url=https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2019/06/meet-ryersons-2019-honorary-doctorates/|access-date=February 15, 2023 |website=Toronto Metropolitan University}}
• 2021: Announced as a 2020 appointee to the Order of Ontario (OOnt).{{Cite web |url=https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59854/province-honouring-the-exceptional-achievements-of-47-ontarians |title=Province Honouring the Exceptional Achievements of 47 Ontarians |website=news.ontario.ca |date=January 1, 2021 |accessdate=January 29, 2023}}

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The following have been named in her honour:

• Hazel McCallion Senior Public School{{cite web | url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/01/29/hazel-mccallion-obit/ | title=Long-time former Mississauga mayor 'Hurricane Hazel' McCallion dies at 101|date=January 29, 2023|work=City News|access-date=January 30, 2023}}
• Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, University of Toronto Mississauga{{cite journal|url = http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/%7Ew3newlib/news_docs/PAC_ExpressFebruary%202005.pdf|title = UTM Academic Learning Centre Honours Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion|journal = The PAC Express|publisher = University of Toronto at Mississauga|date = February 2005|volume = 6|issue = 1|page = 1|access-date = March 29, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006065902/http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/%7Ew3newlib/news_docs/PAC_ExpressFebruary%202005.pdf|archive-date = October 6, 2014 |url-status = dead}}
• Hazel McCallion Centre for Heart Health, Mississauga Hospital{{cite press release |url=http://www.trilliumhealthcentre.org/newsroom/news_releases/April25_2008.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208054331/http://www.trilliumhealthcentre.org/newsroom/news_releases/April25_2008.php |archive-date=February 8, 2013 |title=Trillium Gala honours Mayor Hazel McCallion and issues Cardiac Challenge to the community |date=April 25, 2008 |publisher=Trillium Health Centre}}
• Hazel McCallion Campus, Sheridan College{{cite web|url = http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/745435/sheridan-college-s-90th-birthday-gift-to-mayor-hazel-mccallion-will-honour-her-legacy|title = Sheridan College's 90th Birthday Gift to Mayor Hazel McCallion Will Honour Her Legacy|publisher = News Wire|date = February 13, 2011|url-status = dead|access-date = March 29, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006080802/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/745435/sheridan-college-s-90th-birthday-gift-to-mayor-hazel-mccallion-will-honour-her-legacy|archive-date = October 6, 2014}}{{cite web|title = Hazel McCallion Campus|url = https://www.sheridancollege.ca/about/campus-locations/hmc.aspx|publisher = Sheridan College}}
• Hazel McCallion Canada Day Parade, Port Credit{{cite news|last1=Chin|first1=Joseph|title=Canada Day parties aplenty in Mississauga|url=http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/5691113-canada-day-parties-aplenty-in-mississauga/|access-date=June 23, 2016|work=Mississauga News|date=June 23, 2015|location=Mississauga ON}}
• Mississauga McCallion Women's Softball League, established in 1980{{cite web|url=https://www.mmwsl.ca/|title=Official website|publisher=Mississauga McCallion Women's Softball League}}
• Hazel McCallion Central Library of the Mississauga Library System, renamed after her ahead of her 100th birthday in 2021{{cite web |title=Hazel McCallion Honoured by City of Mississauga with 100th Birthday Celebration and Library Renaming |url=https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/hazel-mccallion-honoured-by-city-of-mississauga-with-100th-birthday-celebration-and-library-renaming/ |publisher=City of Mississauga |access-date=February 12, 2021 |date=February 10, 2021| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222144306/https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/hazel-mccallion-honoured-by-city-of-mississauga-with-100th-birthday-celebration-and-library-renaming/| archive-date=February 22, 2021}}
• Hazel McCallion Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund, The Community Foundation of Mississauga[https://www.cfofm.org/available-grants Available grants], The Community Foundation of Mississauga.
• Hazel McCallion Hall, Vic Johnston Community Centre{{cite web |title=Facility Rentals |url=https://vicjohnston.ca/facility-rentals/ |website=Vic Johnston Community Centre |access-date=4 June 2023 |location=Mississauga ON |quote=The Hazel McCallion Hall has been the home to every type of reception and event imaginable.}}
• Hazel McCallion Line, formerly known as the Hurontario LRT, is a light-rail transit project spanning from Mississauga to Brampton.{{cite news |last1=Rodrigues |first1=Gabby |title=Hurontario LRT to be named after former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8618535/hurontario-lrt-named-hazel-mccallion-line-former-mississauga-mayor/ |access-date=February 14, 2022 |publisher=Global News |date=February 14, 2022}}
• Alectra Utilities Hazel McCallion Municipal Substation, in Streetsville, named in 2008 by predecessor Enersource{{cite news |last1=Slack |first1=Julie |title=Mayor adds new building to growing list |url=https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3141903-mayor-adds-new-building-to-growing-list/ |access-date=September 23, 2022 |work=Mississauga News |publisher=Metroland Media Group |date=October 19, 2008 |location=Mississauga ON}}
• Hazel McCallion Walk for Health, run by Trillium Health Partners, created in 2022{{cite news |last1=Noori |first1=Qiam |title=Hazel McCallion Walk for Health this weekend in Mississauga |url=https://www.mississauga.com/things-to-do/hazel-mccallion-walk-for-health-this-weekend-in-mississauga/article_70abccef-d6a3-5846-b2a5-4e4154f34122.html |access-date=4 June 2023 |work=Mississauga News |publisher=Metroland Media Group |date=1 June 2023 |location=Mississauga ON}}

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• {{cite book |last= Urbaniak|first= Tom|year= 2009|title= Her Worship: Hazel McCallion and the Development of Mississauga|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2zXCcOcNgbAC&pg=PP1|location= Toronto, Ontario|publisher= University of Toronto Press|isbn= 978-0-8020-9902-0}}

• {{cite book |last= McCallion|first= Hazel|year= 2014|title= Hurricane Hazel: A Life with Purpose|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=y_7joAEACAAJ|location= Toronto, Ontario|publisher= HarperCollins |isbn= 978-1-44343-473-7}}
• {{cite web |last1=Morrow |first1=Adrian |title=Hazel McCallion, Mississauga's 'Hurricane,' rode the winds of public opinion |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-hazel-mccallion-mississaugas-hurricane-rode-the-winds-of-public/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=22 October 2023 |date=29 January 2023 |quote=As mayor for 36 years, she read the changing moods of her city and transformed it, distinguishing herself as a master of realpolitik}}

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