Tom Nevakshonoff
Male, Person
1958 –
Who is Tom Nevakshonoff?
Thomas G. "Tom" Nevakshonoff is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is currently a member of the Manitoba legislature.
Nevakshonoff grew up in Poplarfield and Fisher Branch, Manitoba. He graduated from the Fisher Branch Collegiate Institute in 1977. He then spent eighteen years working in Canada's oilfields.
In 1987, Nevakshonoff graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in East European Studies. He is from a Doukhobor family that moved to Canada in 1899. Nevakshonoff travelled to Russia in 1991 where he was employed by Canadian companies interested in the Russian oil and gas industries. In 1992, he was commissioned by the Canadian Embassy in Russia to write a petroleum sector study.
He returned to Canada and on his father's retirement replaced his father as co-owner of the family business, Aberdeen Lodge, a family-owned lodge located just south of Flin Flon. He married Rozanne Imlah in 2000.
Nevakshonoff was elected to the Manitoba legislature as a New Democrat in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Progressive Conservative Betty Green by 3809 votes to 3260 in the riding of Interlake.
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- Born
- Dec 22, 1958
Canada - Also known as
- Невакшонов, Томас
- Education
- Carleton University
- Lived in
- Winnipeg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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