Owen Lewis Jones (6 February 1890 – 5 November 1964) was a

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of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. He was born in

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. Before being elected to Parliament, he was an owner and operator of furniture stores in the Kelowna and

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region of

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. He was also a

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lor and mayor of Kelowna,

. After two unsuccessful attempts to win the

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riding in the

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and

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federal elections, Jones won a

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held on 31 May 1948 which was called when incumbent member Grote Stirling resigned due to poor health. Jones was re-elected at Yale in the 1949 federal election then following a change in electoral district boundaries, he won re-election at the

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riding in

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...

. Jones was defeated by Frank Christian of the Social Credit Party in the 1957 election. Jones made two further attempts to win back the Okanagan Boundary seat in

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

and

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

but was defeated on those occasions by

David Vaughan Pugh David Vaughan Pugh (27 November 1907 – 21 June 2005) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Okotoks, Alberta and had a career as a solicitor, barrister, and insurance agent. Pugh was ...

of the Progressive Conservative Party.

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* 1890 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Canadian politicians Canadian merchants Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPs Kelowna city councillors Mayors of places in British Columbia Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia {{BritishColumbia-politician-stub