Mike Olscamp
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2010}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|image =
| name = Michael Olscamp
| birth_place = Campbellton, New Brunswick
| party = Progressive Conservative
| spouse = Karen
| occupation = teacher, politician
| assembly = New Brunswick Legislative
| constituency_AM = Tantramar
| term_start = September 18, 2006
| term_end = September 27, 2014
| predecessor = Peter Mesheau
| successor = Bernard LeBlancMemramcook-Tantramar
| office1 = Minister of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
| premier1 = David Alward
| term_start1 = October 12, 2010
| term_end1 = October 7, 2014
| predecessor1 = Ronald Ouellette(as minister of agriculture and aquaculture)
Rick Doucet(as minister of fisheries)
| successor1 =Rick Doucet
}}
Michael Robert Olscamp is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and a retired teacher. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2006 election as the Progressive Conservative MLA for Tantramar. He did not win re-election in 2014.{{cite web|title= Mike Olscamp-Candidate for Memramcook-Tantramar|url= http://pcnb.ca/mike-olscamp-candidate-for-memramcook-tantramar/|publisher=PCNB|accessdate= 17 April 2015}}
Biography
He graduated from Campbellton Composite High School and then achieved journeyman status as an electrician. In 1972–73, he enrolled in the Vocational Teacher Training Program at the New Brunswick Institute of Technology in Moncton. He then went on to earn a Bachelor of Education from the University of Moncton.
Olscamp taught vocational education at Tantramar Regional High School in Sackville. After teaching he was vice-principal of the high school in the 1980s. He was then recruited as Director of Inmate Programs at minimum security Westmorland Institution in Dorchester.
He decided to return to a career in the field of public education by teaching at Port Elgin Regional Memorial School for four years. He then returned to Tantramar Regional High School and taught French.{{cite web |url=http://www1.gnb.ca/legis/bios1/bio-e.asp?idNo=139&version=e |title=Mike Olscamp Bios - 56th Legislature |accessdate=2010-04-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106222740/http://www1.gnb.ca/legis/bios1/bio-e.asp?idNo=139&version=e |archivedate=2010-01-06 }} Bio of Mike Olscamp
A sports enthusiast, Olscamp spent three decades coaching the Tantramar area youth. He coached basketball from the elementary through high school levels winning three provincial championships at the high school level. Prior to being elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, he served as the assistant coach of the Mount Allison Mounties Men's basketball team.
He is married to Karen and has two sons, Andrew and William.
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Category:Canadian schoolteachers
Category:Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick
Category:People from Campbellton, New Brunswick
Category:Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs
Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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