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CARROLL, M.B.A, TIMOTHY, manager and professor; b. 17 January 1951 in Charlottetown, son of Claude Carroll and Mary Dooley; m. 28 November 1978 Kathy Jenkins, and they had four children, Melissa, Esther, Patrick Joseph, and Daniel; Roman Catholic.
Carroll, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1986 for 5th Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1989 and 1993. On 2 May 1986, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the Joseph Ghiz* Administration. Carroll resigned as Minister on 25 October 1988, but remained a Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Tim Carroll received his secondary education at Charlottetown Rural High School. He attended the University of Prince Edward Island where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1973. In 1974 Carroll earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Saskatchewan. In his early career he held numerous managerial positions with, among other organizations, the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Marketing Board, the Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Board, and the Prince Edward Island Market Development Centre. Carroll was assistant professor of marketing at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, before he returned to Charlottetown after accepting the position of assistant professor of marketing at the University of Prince Edward Island. In 1984 he was the research coordinator for the Maritime provinces on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Marketing Practices for Potatoes in Eastern Canada. Carroll was a member of the Charlottetown Winter Carnival Committee and the Charlottetown Diocesan Committee on Christian Unity. Timothy Carroll and his wife reside in Parkdale.
Kathy Carroll, the daughter of Lawson Jenkins and Eileen MacKenzie, was born 4 October 1956., CPG 1996; Atlantic Guidebook p. 31; Guardian 26 October 1988.