Art Phillips
Arthur Phillips (September 12, 1930 – March 29, 2013) served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977.[1][2] Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM (The Electors' Action Movement), in 1968. Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council.
Arthur Phillips | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Vancouver Centre | |
| In office 1979–1980 | |
| Preceded by | Ron Basford |
| Succeeded by | Pat Carney |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 12, 1930 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | March 29, 2013 (aged 82) Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Phillips, Carole Taylor |
| Relations | numerous grandchildren and one great-grandchild |
| Children | Susan (1954), Norman (1955), John (1956–1996), David (1960), Lisa (1967), Samantha (1981) |
| Profession | investment analyst |
Under Phillips' mayoral leadership, the city of Vancouver took a more cautious approach to real estate and related development and ensured that environmental and quality-of-life concerns were addressed by city planners.
Phillips was elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1979 as a Liberal, but was defeated the following year in his bid for re-election. After Phillips' defeat, he returned to private life at his investment firm. By 2007, Phillips, Hager & North had become a leading investment firm on the west coast, with over $66 billion of assets under management.
His wife, Carole Taylor, served as a Vancouver alderman in the 1980s and then as chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the 2005 British Columbia election she won election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a Liberal and was subsequently appointed Minister of Finance in Gordon Campbell's cabinet.
During his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia (B.Com., 1953), Phillips was a member of the British Columbia Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was their chapter President in 1950.
Electoral history
| 1980 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Centre | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pat Carney | 16,462 | 35.27 | +0.84 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ron Johnson | 14,830 | 31.77 | +1.80 | ||||
| Liberal | Art Phillips | 14,667 | 31.42 | -3.22 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | David J. Longworth | 337 | 0.72 | – | ||||
| Communist | Jack Phillips | 200 | 0.43 | +0.18 | ||||
| Independent | John Elliot | 101 | 0.22 | -0.38 | ||||
| Independent | Paul Watson | 54 | 0.12 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Greg Corcoran | 24 | 0.05 | -0.06 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 46,675 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | -0.48 | ||||||
| 1979 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Centre | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Art Phillips | 15,430 | 34.64 | -7.09 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pat Carney | 15,335 | 34.43 | -3.10 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ron Johnson | 13,350 | 29.97 | +10.58 | ||||
| Independent | John Elliot | 267 | 0.60 | – | ||||
| Communist | Bert Ogden | 111 | 0.25 | -0.22 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Greg Corcoran | 48 | 0.11 | -0.20 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 44,541 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -2.00 | ||||||
References
- Vancouver, City of. "Art Phillips". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
- "Former Vancouver mayor Art Phillips dead at 82". Cbc.ca. March 29, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
