British Columbia Social Credit Leaders - W. A. C. Bennett, Bill Vander Zalm, Bill Bennett, Grace McCarthy, Rita Johnston, Jack Weisgerber (Paperback)

Chapters: W. A. C. Bennett, Bill Vander Zalm, Bill Bennett, Grace Mccarthy, Rita Johnston, Jack Weisgerber, Ernest George Hansell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Andrew Cecil Bennett, PC, OC (September 6, 1900 February 23, 1979) was the 25th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia. With just over 20 years in office, Bennett was and remains the longest-serving premier in British Columbia history. He was usually referred to as W.A.C. Bennett, although many referred to him either affectionately or mockingly as "Wacky" Bennett. To his close friends, he was known as "Cece." Bennett was born in Hastings, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Andrew Havelock Bennett and Mary Emma Burns. His father was a third cousin of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada. He left formal school in grade nine, during World War I, to take a job in a hardware store, but would pursue correspondence courses as an adult to improve his knowledge and job potential.. At the age of 18, he and his family moved to Edmonton, Alberta and then to Westlock, Alberta, where Bennett's father operated a hardware store. Bennett opened his own hardware store in 1927, in partnership with another man, and married soon afterwards.Bennett sold his interest just before the 1929 Stock Market crash, fled the tough Alberta economic conditions, and soon moved to Kelowna, British Columbia where he opened his own hardware store. A successful merchant, he served as President of the Kelowna Board of Trade from 1937 to 1939. Bennett tried for the Conservative Party's nomination for the 1937 provincial election, but was unsuccessful. For the 1941 election, he won the nomination and entered provincial politics as the Conservative member of the British...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24413