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New Mayor Of Kamloops

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New Mayor Of Kamloops

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title : New Mayor Of Kamloops

physical description: p46, 3

date : 19660118

description: PETER WING, 51, elected mayor of Kamloops is the first Chinese Canadian to be elected mayor of a Canadian city and the first native son to be mayor of Kamloops.The new Mayor defeated Mayor Cyril Day and Aid. Gordon Boultbee .He received 889 votes, Boultbee 755, and Day 624.Mayor-elect Wing of Kamloops has been an alderman for six years. He said he was "very proud and happy", and that his win had overwhelmed his Revelstoke born wife and his elderly parents, who once operated a grocery store in Kamloops. His father arrived from China in 1901. Wing worked in the grocery store with his father for 17 years after sickness interrupted his high school education.He later became an apple grower east of Kamloops on land that is now a bustling subdivision. Wing went into the real estate business about eight years ago. He has held executive posts in many organizations, and on taking office plans to complete a city program of boundary expansion.He is a past president of the Okanagan Valley Municipal Association; a member of the executive of the Union of B.C. Municipalities and has held other municipal posts. (See also p3)

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