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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1929–2012)}}
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| name                =Bill Norrie
| honorific-suffix    ={{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OM|QC|size=100%}}
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| office              =39th [[Mayor of Winnipeg]]
| term_start          =1979
| term_end            =1992
| predecessor         =[[Robert Steen]]
| successor           =[[Susan Thompson]]
| office2             =Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Winnipeg
| term_start2         =1998
| term_end2           =2008
| predecessor2        =[[Otto Lang]]
| successor2          =[[Kenneth Zaifman]]
| birth_date          ={{birth date|1929|1|21}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lumley|first=Elizabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ey1OAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Norrie,+william%22+1929%22|title=Canadian Who's Who 2008|date=4 January 2008|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4071-8|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520133316/https://books.google.com/books?id=ey1OAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Norrie,+william%22+1929%22&dq=%22Norrie,+william%22+1929%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=po_3T4XHHYv3rAGV44yMCQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA|archive-date=20 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
| birth_place         =[[St. Boniface, Manitoba]]
| death_date          ={{death date and age|2012|7|6|1929|1|21}}<ref>{{Cite news|title=Former Winnipeg Mayor Bill Norrie dies|language=en-US|publisher=[[CBC.ca]]|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/former-winnipeg-mayor-bill-norrie-dies-1.1177891|access-date=16 November 2020|date=6 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105171814/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/former-winnipeg-mayor-bill-norrie-dies-1.1177891|archive-date=5 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
| death_place         =[[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]]
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'''William Norrie''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OM|QC}} (January 21, 1929 – July 6, 2012) was the 39th Mayor of [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], and was a onetime [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kuropatwa|first=Rebeca|date=13 January 2010|title=University of Manitoba Chancellor named|url=http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/201001132507/University-of-Manitoba-Chancellor-named.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331192239/http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/201001132507/University-of-Manitoba-Chancellor-named.html|archive-date=31 March 2010|access-date=16 November 2020|publisher=[[The Jewish Tribune (Canada)|The Jewish Tribune]]|location=Winnipeg|quote=Dr. Bill Norrie, will step down on Dec 31 after nine years of service.}}</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 [[Thai Airways International Flight 311|plane crash]] over [[Nepal]]. Duncan was honoured by having a street in Winnipeg named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Honorary Degree recipients|url=http://umanitoba.ca/governance/honours/honorary-degrees|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116070219/http://umanitoba.ca/governance/honours/honorary-degrees|archive-date=16 November 2020|access-date=16 November 2020|publisher=[[University of Manitoba]]|quote=1993;William Norrie; B.A., LL.B.(Man.); LL.D.(Wpg.); Q.C. ; Lawyer, community leader and politician, William Norrie has, for most of his adult life, devoted himself to many of the important issues facing his community and has, for much of that time, been one of the community's leaders.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=29 October 1992|title=Incumbents tossed out in Manitoba elections|page=A28|work=Toronto Star|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/460061381.html?dids=460061381:460061381&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+29%2C+1992&author=(CP)&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Incumbents+tossed+out+in+Manitoba+elections&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|access-date=5 July 2017|archive-date=24 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024224525/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/460061381.html?dids=460061381:460061381&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+29,+1992&author=(CP)&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Incumbents+tossed+out+in+Manitoba+elections&pqatl=google}}</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>[https://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2009/05/08/2009_Spring_Conferment_of_Decorations_on_Foreign_Nationals.pdf 2009 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan]</ref>

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 |title=12th [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the<br>[[University of Manitoba]]
 |before=[[Arthur Mauro]]
 |after=[[Harvey Secter]]
 |years=2001–2009
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[[Category:Chancellors of the University of Manitoba]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of Canada]]
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[[Category:Mayors of Winnipeg]]
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