Alan Brock MacFarlane (May 17, 1924 – December 10, 2018) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and politician in

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. He represented

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in the

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from 1960 to 1968 as a

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. He was born in

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. MacFarlane served in the

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during

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. He studied law at the

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and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1949. He resigned his seat in 1968 and was appointed to the

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. MacFarlane served as a justice in the

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from 1982 to 1995. MacFarlane died in December 2018 at the age of 94.Alan MACFARLANE obituary
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