Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time in gaol in Queensland. He was a member of the Brisbane Trades Hall Council, and was
Gordon Armstrong (politician) mayor in 1958, and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1962. He remained a partner in Yukon Sales, making regular business trips back to Whitehorse. In 1978, he was granted the honorary title of Mayor Emeritus by the incumbent city council. He died on April 28, 1993 in Kelowna, British Columbia. The day after his death, statements of tribute were delivered in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon by MLAs Doug Phillips and Tony Penikett. Gordon Armstrong (politician) Herbert Gordon Armstrong (1905 - 1993) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon from 1950 to 1958. Born in