James Lyle Telford

James Lyle Telford

James Lyle Telford (21 June 1889 - 27 September 1960) was mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1939 to 1940 and a founder of the British Columbia branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He was born in Valens, Ontario.

Telford was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as CCF representative. He campaigned for Vancouver mayor in late 1938, defeating incumbent mayor George Clark Miller by approximately 2000 votes in a city race that involved a total of seven mayoral candidates, which split the right-wing vote. Telford did not maintain CCF party membership as mayor, maintaining that political parties should not be a part of municipal politics. [cite news | publisher=The Vancouver Sun | date=30 November 2002 | page=B4 | first=John | last=Mackie | title=The mayors of Vancouver] He was also a medical doctor by profession.

References

ee also

*Helena Gutteridge

External links

* [http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/whoswho_mayors.htm Vancouver History: list of mayors] , accessed 24 August 2006


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