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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.
* Bill Vander Zalm, 28th Premier of British Columbia, Canada
During the same period, the ruling Social Credit party was beset by controversy under the leadership of William Vander Zalm.
Riding high in the polls, it appeared that the party was poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government of the day but due to a minor verbal gaffe by its new leader Bob Skelly during the campaign and the surprising charisma and telegenic performance of the Socreds ' new leader William Vander Zalm, the party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.
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 then – British 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 %.
Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie " Bill " Vander Zalm ( born May 29, 1934 ) is a politician and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada.
Vander Zalm was born and raised in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.
Vander Zalm was elected alderman of Surrey in 1965, and served as the city's mayor from 1969 to 1975.
Vander Zalm was originally a supporter of both the Liberal Party of Canada and the BC Liberal Party.
" He became widely known overnight when the media reported his off-the-cuff remark with headlines " Vander Zalm Says Give Them a Shovel ".
Vander Zalm launched legal action for libel, Vander Zalm v. Times Publishers.
Supreme Court awarded Vander Zalm $ 3, 500 in damages.
Vander Zalm attracted considerable attention as he considered whether he would run for the leadership of the Social Credit Party.
Once elected with a majority, Vander Zalm selected his cabinet, mostly backbenchers who had languished under Bill Bennett.
Oddly, Vander Zalm decided to release the normally secret list of cabinet appointments to two Vancouver Sun reporters hours before the official announcement was to be made.
Fiscal conservatives had dominated the party for over a decade, but under Vander Zalm social conservatives took control.
Vander Zalm himself was a social conservative, and his government once tried to cut public funding for abortions that were not medically necessary.
The resulting uproar forced Vander Zalm to drop the program.
Vander Zalm became embroiled in a conflict of interest controversy over the sale of his Fantasy Gardens flower garden and theme park.
Vander Zalm claimed that control over the theme park was his wife's responsibility.
Adding fuel to the fire, Faye Leung, a colourful Chinese-Canadian entrepreneur and the woman who brokered the deal, thought that Vander Zalm was a " bad man " since the day she first met him and secretly recorded conversations she had with him, and was happily willing to speak to the media and provide copies of her audio tapes.
Vander Zalm resigned as premier in 1991 when a provincial conflict of interest report by Ted Hughes found he had mixed private business with his public office in the sale of the gardens.

Vander and party
Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in attempting to celebrate the " victory " of Marlborough at Malplaquet, while it moved the English Tory party to begin agitating for a withdrawal from the alliance as soon as they formed a government the next year.
When Vander Zalm resigned on April 2, 1991, Johnston was named interim leader of the party.
Under Bennett's successor, Bill Vander Zalm, control of the party shifted from urban fiscal conservatives to social conservatives, causing the coalition to unravel.
Vander Zalm was forced to resign in a conflict of interest scandal in 1991, and was succeeded as party leader and premier by longtime associate Rita Johnston, who became the first female head of government at any level in Canada.
In 2001, at the behest of former leader Vander Zalm, the Social Credit Party merged with other provincial right-wing parties to form the Unity Party, but soon left due to dissatisfaction with the way the party was run.
By 1991, when Premier Vander Zalm was forced to resign amid scandal allegations, the Social Credit party had become bitterly divided.
Following Hanni's resignation, at the November 12-13, 1999 leadership convention, former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm was acclaimed as leader of the party.
( Wilf Hanni was removed as party leader in June 1998, at the same time that former Social Credit Premier Bill Vander Zalm was chosen as the party's President.
In the live-action film The Flintstones, Wilma was played by Elizabeth Perkins, although in the film, Vander Pyl made a cameo at Fred's surprise party ( in the conga line behind Dino ).
* Cronella Critch the Tricky Witch ( voiced by Jean Vander Pyl )-A witch who was robbing a charity-for-orphans party.

Vander and later
* Barbette-A world famous female impersonator ( born Vander Clyde December 19, 1899 in Round Rock, later legally changed to Vander Clyde Broadway, and died August 5, 1973, at age 74, in Round Rock ).
He lost to Mike Harcourt, who was later the provincial NDP leader during most of Vander Zalm's tenure as premier.
McCarthy was later a senior cabinet minister, serving in a variety of portfolios, in the governments of Social Credit Premier W. R. Bennett from 1975 to 1986 and of Social Credit Premier Bill Vander Zalm from 1986 until her resignation from cabinet in 1988.
Many viewed this as a mistake, as Johnston was close to the Vander Zalm legacy ; even provincial NDP leader Mike Harcourt admitted later that he preferred Johnston over McCarthy, as the latter would be a much tougher opponent in an election.
Many viewed this as a mistake, as Johnston was close to the Vander Zalm legacy ; even NDP leader Harcourt admitted later that he preferred Johnston over McCarthy.
Many viewed this as a mistake, as Johnston was close to the Vander Zalm legacy ; even NDP leader Mike Harcourt admitted later that he preferred Johnston over McCarthy, as the latter would be a much tougher opponent in an election.
His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl.
In, Vander Wal was traded to the San Francisco Giants, who later traded him to the New York Yankees for Jay Witasick.
Vander Meer later recalled that the only hit in the game could have been ruled an error, as shortstop Eddie Joost fielded the ground ball, then dropped it before throwing to first base.

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