David Orlikow (April 20, 1918 – January 19, 1998) was a Canadian politician, and a long-serving member of the House of Commons of Canada. He represented the riding of Winnipeg North from 1962 to 1988 as a member of the New Democratic Party. Family Orlikow was the son of Louis Orlikow (d. 1965) and Sarah Cherniack (d. 1927). He was half-brother of Lionel Orlikow (1932-2008), who was the son of Louis Orlikow and Sylverta “Sylvia” Anderson (d. 1971), and who married Elizabeth Anne Slavin (1932-2021) with whom he had five sons and two daughters (twin brothers David and John, Gord, Dan, Peter, Nancy, and Kate). His first cousin was Saul Cherniack, also a prominent Manitoba politician and a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Edward Schreyer. His nephew Gordon Orlikow is a former decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor who won medals in the 73rd Drake Relays, the 1981 Maccabiah Games and 1985 Maccabiah Games in Israel, and the 1987 Pan American Games, is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Athletics Canada, a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, and a Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International. He was educated at the University of Manitoba, and worked as a labour educator and pharmacist. Orlikow married Velma (Val) Kane on June 1, 1946. They had one daughter, Leslie. His mother, Sarah, was first elected to the Winnipeg School Board as the school trustee for Ward 3 in 1925. Orlikow's cousin, Mindel Cherniak Sheps, succeeded her in the seat when she retired, and held it until 1950 when her brother, Saul Cherniak, was elected. Orlikow's brother, Lionel, was also a trustee on the Winnipeg school board from 1988 to 1998. When Lionel Orlikow retired, he was succeeded by his son John, now a Winnipeg City Councillor. Municipal politics He served as a trustee on the Winnipeg School Board from 1945 to 1951, and was an alderman in the city of Winnipeg from 1951 to 1959. He also served on the board of directors for Winnipeg's John Howard & Elizabeth Fry Society from 1958 to 1961, and was a board member of the Welfare Council of Greater Winnipeg in 1958. Orlikow was also involved with the Jewish Labour Society and the Canadian Labour Congress. He helped to organize a steelworkers' union in the northern Manitoba town of Thompson, after INCO set up operations in the area. Other organizations of which