Robert Samuel Bawlf (June 7, 1944 – August 20, 2016) was a Canadian politician and author.

Biography

In 1972, Bawlf was elected to

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, the youngest person ever to have been so. In

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, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of

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as a member of the Social Credit Party. He was soon appointed Minister of Conservation and Recreation by Premier

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. As minister, he oversaw the enactment of B.C.’s first Heritage Conservation Act. He was defeated in the 1979 general election. Bawlf's book, ''The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake,'' was published in 2003 and has sold more than 20,000 copies. In it he challenged the conventional historical wisdom that fellow British explorer James Cook was the first European to visit the B.C. coast when he sailed into

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in 1778 He died of cancer on August 20, 2016.

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