Bert Price (April 10, 1907 – September 24, 1986) was a business owner and political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

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in the

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from 1952 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1972 as a

Social Credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...

member. He was born in

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, the son of Herbert Price and Florence Mills, natives of

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. In 1929, Price married Hazel Winifred Brightmore. He operated a shoe service and a real estate company. Price served in the

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during

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. He was president of the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce. Price was defeated when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1966. In 1968, he ran unsuccessfully in the federal riding of

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; his son Ron was an unsuccessful candidate in the federal riding of

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in the same year. He was re-elected to B.C. Legislature in 1969 but was defeated a final time in the 1972 general election. He died of cardiac arrest in 1986.

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1907 births 1986 deaths Politicians from Vancouver Canadian people of Welsh descent Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs British Columbia candidates for Member of Parliament Candidates in the 1968 Canadian federal election {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub