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MLA: Hon. Gordon Campbell 

Vancouver-Point Grey


Premier

Elected: 1994, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2009

BRITISH COLUMBIA LIBERAL PARTY

 
E-mail: gordon.campbell.mla@leg.bc.ca or premier@gov.bc.ca
Web site: www.gordoncampbellmla.bc.ca

Office:
Room 156
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC
V8V 1X4

Constituency:
3615 West 4th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V6R 1P2

Phone:

250 387-1715

Phone:

604 660-3202

Fax:

250 387-0087

Fax:

604 660-5488

Gordon Campbell was sworn in as British Columbia's 34th Premier on June 5, 2001.

Mr. Campbell was elected leader of the B.C. Liberal Party in September 1993. He was elected to the B.C. Legislature in 1994 in a by-election to represent the riding of Vancouver-Quilchena and was re-elected in 1996, 2001, 2005, and 2009 for Vancouver-Point Grey.

Mr. Campbell attended public school in Vancouver. After graduating he received a scholarship to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He worked his way through university in the dining hall and as the associate to the secretary of the college, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He later received a Master's of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.

He was a secondary school teacher, basketball and track coach in Yola, Nigeria, working under the auspices of CUSO. He then became an assistant to former Vancouver mayor Art Phillips. From 1976 to 1981, he worked with Marathon Realty, where he became general manager of development. In 1981, he founded Citycore Development Corporation.

In 1984, Mr. Campbell was elected to Vancouver City Council. From 1986 to 1993, he served as Mayor of Vancouver for three successive terms.

Mr. Campbell and his wife Nancy, a school vice-principal, have two sons.