To retire?
For Hazel McCallion, it's a surreal concept.
At 101, this businesswoman, former elected official, is taking on responsibilities.
She is extending her duties as Director of Toronto International Airport in Canada for a three-year term.
She already knows the job since she was appointed to this position in 2017, at only 96 years old.
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In nearly eighty years of career, this sharp-eyed woman, ex-hockey player, nicknamed "Hazel the Hurricane" because of her outspokenness and constant level of civic activity, has multiplied responsibilities.
Hazel McCallion, who won her first election in 1967, was mayor for thirty-six years, until 2014, of Mississauga, a city of 700,000 inhabitants of the Toronto agglomeration.
She has never campaigned for her political mandates but was, in 2012, with an annual income of 187,000 dollars (137,000 euros), the third highest paid mayor in the country.
Born in 1921 in Quebec into a large family where the father, Herbert Armand Journeaux, was a fisherman and the mother, Amanda Travers, a farmer, she studied secretarial studies
“reluctantly”
because his family could not afford to send him to university.
The secret to this mother of three's longevity?
She delivered it, tells Franceinfo, on the occasion of her birthday, February 14, discussing, in the cold and the snow:
“Work hard, be positive, stay independent and remember that you are on earth to accomplish something. thing
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