Robert Samuel Bawlf (June 7, 1944 – August 20, 2016) was a Canadian politician and author.
Biography
In 1972, Bawlf was elected to
Victoria City Council
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, the youngest person ever to have been so.
In
1975
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January
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, he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of
Victoria
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as a member of the
Social Credit Party. He was soon appointed Minister of Conservation and Recreation by Premier
Bill Bennett
William Richards Bennett, (April 14, 1932 – December 3, 2015) was the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986. He was a son of Annie Elizabeth May (Richards) and former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed ...
. 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
Nootka Sound
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in 1778
He died of cancer on August 20, 2016.
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1944 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Canadian legislators
21st-century Canadian historians
British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs
Canadian urban planners
Conservation architects
Deaths from cancer in British Columbia
Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia
Politicians from Winnipeg
Real estate and property developers
Victoria, British Columbia city councillors