Bill Norrie
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Politician William Norrie Template:Post-nominals (January 21, 1929 – July 6, 2012) was the 39th Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was a onetime Chancellor of the University of Manitoba.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Norrie was also involved in various charities, and once chaired the United Way of Winnipeg's annual campaign.
In August 1992 Norrie's son Duncan was killed in a plane crash over Nepal. Duncan was honoured by having a street in Winnipeg named after him.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Norrie had been the Honorary Consul-General of Japan in his later years, and he received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in Spring 2009.<ref>2009 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan</ref>
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- 1929 births
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- Chancellors of the University of Manitoba
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Members of the Order of Manitoba
- Members of the United Church of Canada
- University of Manitoba alumni
- Mayors of Winnipeg
- Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun
- Deaths from respiratory failure in Canada
- 20th-century mayors of places in Manitoba