Jack Davis died at his West Vancouver home recently. He was 74. Davis had been British Columbia’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources since 1986. Davis was born in Kamloops, B.C., and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering degree and a Rhodes Scholarship.
He subsequently obtained a degree in economics and politics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in engineering from McGill University.
Davis served his country in the R.C.A.F. during the Second World War, and held several senior federal appointments in the postwar years. He was associated with natural resource and economic issues for much of his public life, and became Canada’s first Minister of Environment in 1970.
He was first elected to the British Columbia legislature as MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour in 1975, and was re-elected in 1979, 1983 and 1986. Davis died in his sleep after a long battle with cancer.
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