Tom Siddon, cabinet minister during Oka crisis, dies at 84: family

Tom Siddon, who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during the Oka crisis and later helped to establish Nunavut, has died at 84.

His daughter, Katie Siddon Karn, confirmed his death Sunday in a post on social media.

She says her father, originally from Alberta, “stumbled” into politics in the 1970s and was known for building bridges and finding consensus.

Siddon Karn says one of her dad’s proudest accomplishments was working to secure the Nunavut Land Settlement Agreement that — quite literally — put Nunavut on the map.