Alexander Aronec is running for Ottawa City Council for Ward 5–West Carleton– March.His full name is Alexander William Snedden Aronec. Born in Toronto, he lived in the Jane Finch corridor and attended York University [daycare]. He moved to Kanata [Glen Cairn] at the age of 1 along with his parents. For the last 15 years he has resided in Rural Kanata/Ward 5. Alexander is proud that his family history goes back numerous generations in the Ottawa Valley [see below]  and that currently he has relatives who are still actively farming in Ward 5. He attended Rolland Michener, W. Erskine Johnston and West Carleton High School. He has completed his degree in Political Science at Carleton. Last, he has also completed a Project Management certificate at Algonquin.

Alexander is a self-admitted “political junkie” and has been active in various aspects of Politics for several years. During High School he ran for and was elected to successively more significant roles within the student Government. His ability was recognized and he was invited to attend the “Forum for Young Canadians” and later, to the Presidential Classroom Future Leader Summit held in Ottawa and Washington respectively.

Alexander volunteered for, and served on the City of Ottawa, Parks and Recreation Committee between 2008 and 2009. In addition to this, he has been and remains an active member of Scouts Canada. He has served as the Carleton Area Youth Area Commissioner which necessitated dealing with various organizational, financial and program issues. He is also an active member of the Camp Opemikon Crew who spend a significant amount of time volunteering to maintain and operate the facility outside of Perth.
Alexander’s most recent involvement in the community has been with the March Rural Community Association. He has worked on various issues in the community in the capacity as a director and now as its current President. Some of the issues he has been working on already have been road quality, water issues, and waste collection to name a few. Professionally he has been undertaking professional entrepreneurial as well as working as a Contracts Administrator for a local consulting firm.  He has stepped away from these endeavors for the election campaign. He also has been cleared to a NATO Secret level by the federal government.

History in the Valley
From:   https://carletonplacelocalhistory.wordpress.com/tag/sneddens-mills/
At the head of Norway Pine Falls on the lower Mississippi in Ramsay township, James Snedden, one of the Lanark society settlers, received an 1821 location of one hundred acres of land which ran from the present Highway 29 to the village of Blakeney.  Alexander Snedden, who had emigrated two years earlier and had located with David Snedden in the eleventh concession of Beckwith, soon removed to the Pine Falls where he built grist and saw mills and a timber slide.  The family entered the square Timber trade, taking their timber down the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence to the Quebec City market.  James Snedden jr. (1821-1882), known as “Banker Snedden,” also engaged in lumbering and other enterprises.
Rosebank Inn and Norway Pine Falls
On the road to Pakenham and the Ottawa, Alexander Snedden’s Rosebank Inn provided travelers with accommodation of a high standard.  Here the Reform Association conventions of the old District of Bathurst and of the United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew of the eighteen forties and early fifties were held.  A discriminating traveler of 1846 wrote of “Snedden’s Hotel, which is kept in as good style as any country Inn in the Province.”  Another travelling newspaper contributor of fifteen years later added in confirmation: “Who in this portion of Victoria’s domain has not heard of Snedden’s as a stopping place?  Ask any teamster on the upper Ottawa and he will satisfy you as to its capabilities of rendering the traveler oblivious to the comforts of his home.”  Alexander Snedden became a militia officer and in 1855 gained the rank of Lieutenant colonel in command of the Ramsay battalion of Lanark Militia.  His adjutant was Captain J. B. Wylie,  Almonte mill owner.
Around the Snedden establishment a small community grew at Norway Fine Falls, known as Snedden’s Mills until in the eighteen fifties it was named Rosebank.  It was renamed Blakeney when the post office of the area was moved here in 1874 from Bennie’s Corners with Peter McDougall as postmaster.  The nearby railway station continued to be called Snedden,