Randolph Harding (September 17, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a

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Biography

Born in

Silverton, British Columbia Silverton is a village about south of New Denver in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former steamboat landing is at the mouth of Silverton Creek on the eastern shore of Slocan Lake. The locality, on BC Highway 6 a ...

, Harding was a teacher and a member of the Silverton municipal council. He was elected as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing

Kaslo-Slocan Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan". The riding first appeared in the 1924 el ...

in 1945, and was re-elected in 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1963 and 1966. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 federal election for the

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riding of Kootenay West. A

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, he was re-elected in

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and was defeated in 1974. After leaving federal politics, Harding served as mayor of Silverton and received a long service award from the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. Harding served in the

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during

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* 1914 births 1996 deaths British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs 20th-century Canadian politicians Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia New Democratic Party MPs Mayors of places in British Columbia {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub, Harding, Randolph