Steve Neary

He helped unionize the office employees at the company and then served on the municipal council.

He was active with the Newfoundland Federation of Labour serving as its secretary-treasurer and ran for office as a candidate for the Newfoundland Democratic Party[2] in the 1959 provincial election In 1962, he was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a Liberal and, as a backbench MHA, took on the legal industry for charging excessive fees and sparked a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the matter.

He attempted to win a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in a St. John's East federal by-election in 1987 but was defeated.

After his retirement he wrote a book about the German U-boat attack on Bell Island in the second World War, called Enemy on our Doorstep.

He also devoted a great deal of time to Bell Island and was instrumental in raising monuments, and to creating a museum.