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Neville Langrell "Bill" Barlee [1] (October 6, 1932 [2] – June 14, 2012) was a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democrat in 1988 (after unsuccessfully running in the 1969 and 1972 provincial elections).
Larry Chalmers (July 21, 1944 – May 2, 2013) was a Canadian politician in the province of British Columbia.He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly for Okanagan South from 1986 to 1991 and as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the British Columbia Social Credit Party under Premier Rita Johnston.
Following his party's defeat in the 1972 election by Dave Barrett's revitalized New Democratic Party (the successor to the CCF), he served as Leader of the Opposition until resigning his seat as member for South Okanagan in June 1973. His son, W.R. "Bill" Bennett, won the South Okanagan by-election in September. W.
South Okanagan was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan South .
At Penticton, British Columbia, he formed the South Okanagan Flying Club in partnership with two ex-RCAF members. A lack of commercial flying business forced them into reassessing their position, so they moved to Kelowna and formed Okanagan Air Service. Their plan was to engage in instructional activities, charter flying and crop spraying, but ...
Provincially, Grand Forks is located in the constituency of Boundary-Similkameen, where it is represented by MLA Donegal Wilson (BC Conservative Party), who defeated the NDP incumbent, Roly Russell in this year's Provincial Election, and federally it is located in the South Okanagan—West Kootenay riding and represented by MP Richard Cannings.
Terry Isaac held his own gallery and framing shop among the vineyards and orchards on the South Okanagan's "Naramata Bench". [19] There he gave workshops on painting techniques throughout the year. Although Isaac received a formal art education, graduating with honours, he believed his best training came from being outdoors and from studying ...
British Columbia Southern Interior (formerly known as Southern Interior, Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan and West Kootenay—Okanagan) was a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that had been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.