Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Brown, Buda Hosmer
Parallel form(s) of name
- Jenkins, Buda Hosmer (nee)
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Dates of existence
June 10, 1894 - August 12, 1962
History
Buda Hosmer Brown was a Social Credit Party politician representing Vancouver-Point Grey in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. She was born Buda Hosmer Jenkins on June 10, 1894 in Bellingham, WA to William D. Jenkins. She served eight years as a Vancouver Parks commissioner and married Donald Cameron Brown. Brown ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Vancouver—Burrard in 1953 before being elected to the provincial assembly as a member of the Social Credit Party. Brown served in the provincial cabinet as minister without portfolio. She died in office at the age of 68.
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Bellingham, WA
Vancouver
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Parks Commissioner
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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Catalogued November 2021.