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* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.
King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.
* Gordon Campbell, former Premier of British Columbia
* Glen Clark, former Premier of British Columbia
* Ujjal Dosanjh, former Premier of British Columbia
Ujjal Dosanjh was the New Democratic Party Premier of British Columbia from July 2004 until February 2005, and currently serves as a Liberal frontbench MP in Ottawa.
President Harding met with British Columbia Premier John Oliver and Mayor of Vancouver Charles Tisdall at the Hotel Vancouver.
During the final stages of World War II the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.
* March 1 – Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster's term in office ends.
* August 18 – William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
As the gold boom ended Premier Julius Vogel borrowed money from British investors and launched in 1870 an ambitious programme of public works and infrastructure investment, together with a policy of assisted immigration.
The UK's first supermarket under the new Premier Supermarkets brand opened in Streatham, South London, taking ten times as much per week as the average British general store of the time.
In four of the British overseas territories ( Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the British Virgin Islands ), the elected heads of government are styled as " Premier ".
* Premier of the British Virgin Islands
* Alexander Davie – born in Wells 1847, became 7th Premier of British Columbia.
Since Belize was a British colony ( known as British Honduras ) in 1964, Premier George Cadle Price led a delegation to London to seek funds to finance the new capital.
To encourage financial commitment from the British government, Premier Price and the PUP government invited Anthony Greenwood, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth and Colonies, to visit Belize.
Tehran was the site of the Tehran Conference in 1943, attended by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The Boston Barracudas raced in the British League Division Two, ( now the Premier League ) and in 1973 completed a clean sweap winning the League, Knock-out Cup, and Arthur Price won the League Individual Championship, after the New Hammond Beck Road Stadium was sold for re-development in 1988 attempts to secure a new venue failed in the 1990s a team, known as Boston, raced in the Conference League out of King's Lynn
Lang then contended that the Act was rendered null and void by contravening the 1833 prohibition of slavery throughout the British Empire ; the Premier held that the actions of the Lyons government deprived the State of New South Wales of paying the wages of State employees and that this necessarily constituted an ( illegal ) state of slavery.
* Orlando Smith ( born 1944 ), Premier of the British Virgin Islands
* Amor De Cosmos ( William Alexander Smith, 1825 – 1897 ), Premier of British Columbia

Premier and Columbia
* Bill Vander Zalm, 28th Premier of British Columbia, Canada
The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier Tommy Douglas, and made major inroads in British Columbia.
In 1991, due in part to Social Credit's scandal-plagued final term in office under Premier William Vander Zalm and in part to the stellar performance of thenBritish Columbia Liberal Party ( BC Liberals ) leader Gordon Wilson in the televised leader's debate, the old Social Credit vote split between the BC Liberals, which garnered 33 % of the vote and BC Social Credit Party with 25 %.
He served as 33rd Premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 including a stint as Minister of Health from 2004 until 2006 when the party lost government.
He served as the 33rd Premier of British Columbia until June 2001 when he lost the province's general election.
Glen David Clark ( born November 22, 1957 in Nanaimo, British Columbia ) is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.
Michael Franklin Harcourt ( born January 6, 1943 ) served as the 30th Premier of the province of British Columbia in Canada from 1991 to 1996, and before that as the 34th mayor of BC's major city, Vancouver from 1980 to 1986.
He was the 28th Premier of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991.
Johnston became the first female premier in Canadian history when she succeeded Bill Vander Zalm in 1991 to become the 29th Premier of British Columbia.
## Premier of British Columbia ( Christy Clark, )
He served as the second Premier of British Columbia.
William Richards Bennett, PC, OBC ( born August 18, 1932 ), commonly known as Bill Bennett, was the 27th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975 – 1986.

Premier and Mike
A number of their songs also express the band's progressive political leanings (" The Greatest Man in America ", for instance, mocks Rush Limbaugh, and " Big Fish " lambastes former Premier of Ontario Mike Harris ).
Reform's ambitions of becoming a national party and spreading into the east, particularly into Ontario, were helped by the rise of Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris to power in 1995.
The show would feature some of the band's most famous instruments, including Mike Rutherford's double neck that consisted of a MicroFret six string bass and a Rickenbacker 12 string guitar, and Phil Collins ' largest drum kit with Genesis featuring four timbales, a red seven-piece Ludwig kit ( and later a natural finish Premier kit in same configuration ,) a Fibes Crystallite snare, a set of five red temple blocks, a vibraphone, a set of orchestral bells, tubular bells, and a set of tuned tambourines ( which can be heard on " In the Cage.
* Mike Rann, Former Premier of South Australia, and future Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Michael Deane " Mike " Harris ( born January 23, 1945 ) was the 22nd Premier of Ontario from June 26, 1995 to April 15, 2002.
Shortly after his first election win in 1995, Mike Harris faced his first crisis as Premier.
Premier Mike Harris asked former federal energy Minister Jake Epp to study and make recommendations on the problems with the Pickering restart.
In the immediate aftermath of the merger announcement, some Conservative activists hoped to recruit former Ontario Premier Mike Harris for the leadership.
Despite his experience, he was not appointed to cabinet by the new Premier, Mike Harris.
He was not Mike Harris's preferred choice for the position ( the Premier supported Margaret Marland ) but won with support from members in all three parties.
A principal secretary to former PC Premier Bill Davis, Tory was regarded as more moderate than Mike Harris and the mostly rural MPPs who made up the majority of his caucus.
Shortly before the 2001 election, he faced a crisis when a CJC inquiry-the Shepherdson inquiry-revealed that a number of MPs and party activists — including Deputy Premier Jim Elder, a former State Secretary and newly elected MP Mike Kaiser, and a senior adviser to Wayne Goss — had been engaged in breaches of the Electoral Act by falsely enrolling people to boost their faction's strength in internal party ballots.
* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt
* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt
* Premier of Ontario-Bob Rae then Mike Harris
* Premier of Ontario: Mike Harris
When the parliamentary wing of the National Party deposed Bjelke-Petersen and elected one of the dissident ministers, Mike Ahern, as new Leader of the National Party, Sir Joh initially refused to resign as Premier and Sir Walter resisted calls to dismiss him.
Further growth was achieved during the " Days of Action ", a series of one-day general strikes between late 1995 and 1998 against the ruling Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Premier Mike Harris.
* Premier of British Columbia: Mike Harcourt
Under Premier Mike Harcourt, she served as Minister of Social Services from 1993 to 1996.
At the same time, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, who some suggested were kindred spirits in policy and direction to Reform and Blue Tory PCs, had formed a provincial government under Premier Mike Harris.
* Mike Harris-former Premier of Ontario
The Socreds under Premier Rita Johnston was reduced to third party status, while the New Democratic Party of Mike Harcourt formed the government.
Under this policy, the province will take back $ 1. 5 Billion worth of programs funded by Ontario ’ s municipalities by 2018, reversing previous downloading of provincial responsibilities which occurred during Mike Harris ’ tenure as Premier.

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