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Place of Birth: Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
About Tony Whitford
- Anthony Wilfred James Whitford (born June 11, 1941) is a retired Canadian politician and former Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. Whitford was born in 1941 and raised in the Northwest Territories, in the small town of Fort Smith, at the time the capital of the NWT. As a young man, he worked for Northern Transportation Company (NTCL) on the boats sailing the Mackenzie River and for Northern Canada Power Commission (NCPC) in Fort Smith and Taltson River.
- Whitford and family moved to Calgary in 1973 where he attended the University of Calgary.
- He moved to Yellowknife in 1977 and began a career with the Territorial and Federal governments. Whitford entered the political arena in 1988 and retired in 2010 after 22 years of civil service.
- In June 2010, Whitford was appointed as an Honorary Naval Captain of the Canadian Navy.
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