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George Herman Kerster
George Herman Kerster (born March 2, 1937) is a former car dealer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Coquitlam in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1975 to 1979 as a Social Credit member. He was born in Lafleche, Saskatchewan, the son of Gustave A. Kerster and Marjorie P. Gohn, and was educated in Fort William, Ontario, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. In 1959, he married Helen K. Bartels. Kerster was a 1st lieutenant in the Regina militia. He later moved to Coquitlam, British Columbia. Kerster defeated former NDP premier Dave Barrett to win his assembly seat in 1975. He was defeated by Norman Levi in 1979 when he ran for reelection in the new riding of Coquitlam-Maillardville Coquitlam-Maillardville is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Demographics Geography The Coquitlam–Maillardville district encompasses most of land of the City of Coqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquitlam (electoral District)
Coquitlam was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1975. The riding's successor was the Coquitlam-Moody riding. For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts) and/or Vancouver (electoral districts). Demographics Political geography Notable elections Notable MLAs Electoral history , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 17,240 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 155 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , New Democrat , Dave Barrett , align="right", 12,948 , align="right", 47.67% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 27,161 !align="right", 100.0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of British Columbia
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assembly of the Parliament of British Columbia, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The Legislative Assembly meets in Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria. Members are elected from List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts, provincial ridings and are referred to as Member of the Legislative Assembly, members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Bills passed by the legislature are given royal assent by the Monarchy of Canada, Canadian monarch, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. The current Parliament is the 42nd Parliament. The most recent general election was 2020 British Columbia general election, held on October 24, 2020. Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly are broadcast to cable viewers in the province by Hansard TV, Hansard Broadcasting Services. Recent parliaments Officeholders Speaker * Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia: Raj Chou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing provincial political party of British Columbia, Canada, for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. For four decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the British Columbia New Democratic Party governed. Although founded as part of the Canadian social credit movement, promoting social credit policies of monetary reform, the BC Social Credit Party later discarded the ideology and became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in British Columbia. The party essentially collapsed within one term of its 1991 defeat. It has not been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 1996, and only existed in a nominal fashion from around 2001 to 2013 when the party was deregistered for failing to nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafleche, Saskatchewan
Lafleche is a small town in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada in the Rural Municipality of Wood River No. 74. The community is located at the intersection of Highway 13 and Highway 58. It is 20 km south of Gravelbourg and 45 km west of Assiniboia. It is situated on the south bank of Lafleche Creek, which is a tributary of Wood River. Thomson Lake Regional Park is located 10 minutes north of town. History The village of Buffalo Head started to form one and a half miles east of the present townsite with the arrival of settlers in 1905. The name was changed to Lafleche in honour of Louis-François Richer Laflèche. In 1910, a school district was formed and a school was built at the corner of four townships on a quarter of land owned by Mr. Belisle. In March 1912, there was already a hamlet set on a piece of land owned by F. X. Brunelle. There was a bank, two stores and blacksmith shops. In 1912, the railway was built to Expanse, then in the fall as far as Assiniboia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort William, Ontario
Fort William was a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern Ontario. The city's Latin motto was ''A posse ad esse'' (''From a possibility to an actuality''), featured on its coat of arms designed in 1900 by town officials, "On one side of the shield stands an Indian dressed in the paint and feathers of the early days; on the other side is a French voyageur; the center contains a grain elevator, a steamship and a locomotive, while the beaver surmounts the whole." History Fur trade era Fort William and Grand Portage were the two starting points for the canoe route from the Great Lakes to Western Canada. For details of the route inland see Kaministiquia River. French period (Fort Kaministiquia) Kamanistigouian, as a place, is first mentioned in a decr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Battleford, Saskatchewan
North Battleford is a city in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the seventh largest city in the province and is directly across the North Saskatchewan River from the Town of Battleford. Together, the two communities are known as "The Battlefords". North Battleford borders the Rural Municipality of North Battleford No. 437, as well as the North Battleford Crown Colony (census subdivision). The Battlefords are served by the Yellowhead Highway and Highway 4, Highway 26, Highway 29, and Highway 40. Battlefords Provincial Park is north on Highway 4. History For thousands of years prior to European settlement, succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples lived in the area. The Battlefords area (including the present city of North Battleford and town of Battleford) was home to several historic indigenous groups, including the Algonquian-speaking Cree and Blackfeet as well as Siouan Assiniboine First Nation band governments, who contested for control of local resources. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Weyburn is the eleventh-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 10,870. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the United States. The name is reputedly a corruption of the Scottish "wee burn," referring to a small creek. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Weyburn No. 67. History The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) reached the future site of Weyburn from Brandon, Manitoba in 1892 and the Soo Line from North Portal on the US border in 1893. A post office opened in 1895 and a land office in 1899 in anticipation of the land rush which soon ensued. In 1899, Knox Presbyterian Church was founded with its building constructed in 1906 in the high-pitched gable roof and arches, standing as a testimony to the faith and optimism in the Weyburn area. Weyburn was legally constituted a village in 1900, a town in 1903 and finally as a city in 1913. From 1910 until 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Coquitlam ( ) is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Mainly suburban, Coquitlam is the sixth-largest city in the province, with a population of 148,625 in 2021, and one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver. The mayor is Richard Stewart. Simon Fraser explored the region in 1808, encountering the Indigenous Coast Salish peoples. Europeans started settling in the 1860s. Fraser Mills, a lumber mill on the north bank of the Fraser River was constructed in 1889, and by 1908 there were 20 houses, a store, post office, hospital, office block, barber shop, pool hall, and a Sikh temple. History The Coast Salish people were the first to live in this area, and archaeology confirms continuous occupation of the territory for at least 9,000 years. The name '' Kwikwetlem'' is said to be derived from a Coast Salish term "kʷikʷəƛ̓əm" meaning "red fish up the river". Explorer Simon Fraser came through the region in 1808, and in the 1860s Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Barrett
David Barrett (October 2, 1930 – February 2, 2018) was a politician and social worker in British Columbia, Canada. He was the 26th premier of British Columbia from 1972 to 1975. Early life and career Barrett was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Rose (Hyatt or Hait) and Samuel Barrett, a peddler. His family was Jewish. His mother was from Odessa, and his paternal grandparents were immigrants from Russia. Barrett described his father as a Fabian socialist and his mother as a Communist who voted CCF. Barrett graduated from Seattle University with a degree in philosophy. He returned to Vancouver in 1953 after graduating and married Shirley Hackman. The couple then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Barrett attended St Louis University and earned a master's degree in social work. The couple and their two children (a third would be born in 1960) returned to British Columbia in 1957 where he found work at Haney Correctional Institute as a personnel and staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Levi
Norman Levi (25 February 1927 – 25 December 2015) was an English-born social worker and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver South from 1968 to 1969, Vancouver-Burrard from 1972 to 1979 and Coquitlam-Maillardville from 1979 to 1983 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. He was born in Birmingham and served in the British Army from 1943 to 1947. After leaving the army he moved to Canada, then studied at Western Washington University. In 1951, he married Gloria Hammerman. Levi graduated as a social worker and was hired by the John Howard Society in Vancouver. He served as president of the provincial NDP. He was first elected to the provincial assembly in a 1968 by-election held following the death of Thomas Audley Bate Thomas Audley Bate (March 12, 1913 – September 21, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coquitlam-Maillardville
Coquitlam-Maillardville is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Demographics Geography The Coquitlam–Maillardville district encompasses most of land of the City of Coquitlam except for the city centre, Westwood Plateau, and a small corner in the northwest that belongs to the Port Moody-Coquitlam electoral district. Coquitlam–Mallardville is bounded by North Road, the Brunette River, and Braid Street to the west; the Fraser River to the south; and the Coquitlam River, and Westwood Street and its extension south from Kingsway Avenue to the river, to the east. The north and northwest boundary follows the CPR tracks from Westwood Street to just north of Viewmount Drive. It then goes south along Viewmont and continues straight, to the end of Brookmount Road. From here it goes west along Brookmount Road and Brookmount Avenue, north of Fresno Place, Harbour Drive, and Bent Court to Gatensbury Avenue, then south to Foster Ave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
