Elwood Veitch | |
Birth Date: | 21 July 1929 |
Birth Place: | Monck Township, Ontario |
Constituency Am1: | Burnaby-Willingdon |
Assembly1: | British Columbia Legislative |
Term Start1: | May 5, 1983 |
Term End1: | October 17, 1991 |
Predecessor1: | James Gibson Lorimer |
Successor1: | Joan Sawicki |
Term Start2: | December 11, 1975 |
Term End2: | May 10, 1979 |
Predecessor2: | James Gibson Lorimer |
Successor2: | James Gibson Lorimer |
Party: | Social Credit |
Occupation: | Financial Administrator |
Spouse: | Sheila Boyce |
Elwood Neal Veitch (July 21, 1929 - September 18, 1993) was a financial administrator and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Burnaby-Willingdon in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.
Veitch was born in Monck Township, Ontario, the son of Wellington Veitch and Alice Alma Brott, and was educated in Bracebridge, Ajax and at the University of British Columbia. In 1953, he married Sheila Gertrude Boyce.[1] At various times, Veitch served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations,[2] Minister of Regional Development,[3] Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Provincial Secretary, Minister of Tourism and Small Business Development, Minister of Government Services, Minister of State for Mainland/Southwest, Attorney General, and Minister of International Business and Immigration.[4] He died in 1993 at the age of 64.[5]