Norman Vickar of the prairie center of Melfort, Saskatchewan, has joined the provincial Cabinet as Minister of Trade and Commerce. Elected to the provincial legislature as a New Democrat in 1975. Vickar will be the first Jewish Cabinet minister in the province of Saskatchewan. Vickar was born in the Jewish farm colony of Edenbridge–a name based on the half-Yiddish name “Yidden-Bridge”–founded at the turn of the century by his family. He has been an active leader in the Melfort and Edenbridge Jewish communities, taking a leading part in synagogue work, the Histadrut and the United Jewish Appeal. Vickar had been mayor of Melfort but resigned from that post when he was appointed to the Cabinet.
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