It expanded the highway system, extended the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the Kenny Dam.
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He established the BC Power Commission, a forerunner of BC Hydro, to provide power to smaller communities that were not serviced by private utilities.
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Pattullo was also a great advocate for British Columbia, and suggested such things as the annexation of Yukon by BC, and the construction of the Alaska Highway to reduce the power of eastern Canada over BC.
The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver.
After Glen Clark became premier Mike Geoghegan became increasingly disillusioned with the leftward drift of the NDP, and by 1997 Mike had joined the BC Liberals.
After the election of the BC Liberal Government in 2001 all passenger services were gradually phased out starting with the Royal Hudson excursion.
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She was defeated by BC Liberal candidate Margaret MacDiarmid in the 2009 provincial election.