Robert Arthur Williams
| Robert Arthur Williams | |
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| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Vancouver East |
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In office September 12, 1966 – February 27, 1976 Serving with Alexander Macdonald |
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| Preceded by | Arthur Turner |
| Succeeded by | Dave Barrett |
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In office November 8, 1984 – October 17, 1991 Serving with Alexander Macdonald (1984-1986) Glen Clark (1986-1991) |
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| Preceded by | Dave Barrett |
| Succeeded by | Riding Abolished |
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Robert Arthur Williams January 20, 1933 Vancouver, British Columbia |
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New Democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
| Profession | Consultant |
Robert Arthur Williams (born January 20, 1933) was a consultant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver East in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1991 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member.
He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was educated at the University of British Columbia, graduating from the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). Williams worked as a town planning consultant. He served as an alderman for Vancouver from 1964 to 1966. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources from 1972 to 1975.
In that capacity, Williams was responsible, or co-responsible, for the Royal Commission on Forestry (the Pearce Report); the Columbia Basin Trust; the purchase and management of Ocean Falls pulp and paper mills and township; the acquisition and management of Columbia Cellulose, re-named Canadian Cellulose, a sulphite, sawmill, and bleached kraft mills operation in Prince Rupert, Terrace, and Castlegar; the BC Assessment Authority; the Agricultural Land Reserve and Commission; the first resort-municipality in Canada, created for the Whistler/Blackcomb complex; as Minister of Parks, a doubling of Provincial Park acreage in British Columbia, including creation of the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park, protecting 1.6 million acres and the largest known herd of woodland caribou; Robson Square and its attendant Law Courts in downtown Vancouver; refurbishment and operation of the SS Princess Marguerite electric-diesel ferry service from Victoria to Seattle; and, expansion of the role and authority of the Environment and Land Use Secretariat.
Williams resigned his seat in 1976 to allow Dave Barrett to be reelected to the assembly. The Forensic Audit of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society revealed that Williams received $80,000, 4 years pay for an MLA at the time, from the NCHS. NDP MP and MLA David Stupich was convicted for taking that money away from Nanaimo Charities, using a small part to pay Williams, and passing some of it along to the NDP and to Unions such as the IWA.
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