Why Michael Doody is on this page

Heritage: Michael J. J. Doody is a Quebec-born Canadian politician of the Doody-surname Quebec/Ontario cohort; the cited Wikipedia article does not document Irish ancestry. Heritage classification: surname-carrier; no documented Irish lineage in cited sources.

Michael J. J. Doody (born 29 September 1936) is a Canadian politician who has been one of the longest-serving figures in Timmins, Ontario municipal politics across half a century. Born in Val d’Or, Quebec, he moved to Timmins in 1959 to work at radio station CKGB-FM, and from 1974 worked at CFCL-TV, hosting the talk-and-current-affairs show *Midday*. Elected as a town councillor in 1970, he ran for Mayor in 1976 and unseated the incumbent, Leo Del Villano, serving as Mayor for two terms from 1977 to 1980. He left politics until 1985, when he returned as a councillor; he held that seat until 1996. In 2005, when Councillor Yves Malette stepped down, the mayor and council asked Doody to return for the unfilled ward; he was re-elected as a councillor in the 2006 and 2010 municipal elections, again in 2014 to a four-year term, and stood unsuccessfully for re-election in 2018. He was the Ontario Liberal Party candidate for Timmins–James Bay in the 2003 provincial election but lost to incumbent New Democrat MPP Gilles Bisson. He has served on the boards of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the Downtown Timmins Business Improvement Association.

Heritage notes

Family root: Val d'Or, Quebec, Canada — diaspora-unconfirmed-surname-only-quebec.

The directory threads Michael Doody back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.