Honorific-Prefix: | The Reverend |
Thomas Neil Vant | |
Birth Date: | 11 July 1944 |
Birth Place: | Nelson, British Columbia |
Constituency Am1: | Cariboo |
Assembly1: | British Columbia Legislative |
Term Start1: | October 22, 1986 |
Term End1: | October 17, 1991 |
Alongside1: | Alex Fraser (1986-1989) David Zirnhelt (1989-1991) |
Predecessor1: | Alex Fraser |
Successor1: | Riding Abolished |
Party: | Social Credit |
Occupation: | Clergyman, Prospector |
Thomas Neil Vant (born July 11, 1944) is an Anglican clergyman, prospector, businessman and former political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1986 to 1991 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Social Credit member.
He was born in Nelson, British Columbia, the son of Thomas E. Vant and Helen Isabel Simpson, and was educated in Quesnel, at the B.C. Vocational School, at the University of British Columbia and at the Vancouver School of Theology. In 1970, he married Jeanne Stanton Parmucker. In 1988 and 1989, Vant served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Transportation and Highways.[1]