Robert Samuel Bawlf (June 7, 1944 – August 20, 2016) was a Canadian politician and author.

Biography

In 1972, Bawlf was elected to Victoria City Council, the youngest person ever to have been so. In

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, he was elected to the

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for the riding of Victoria as a member of the Social Credit Party. He was soon appointed Minister of Conservation and Recreation by Premier Bill Bennett. As minister, he oversaw the enactment of B.C.’s first Heritage Conservation Act. He was defeated in the 1979 general election. Bawlf's book, ''The Secret Journey of Sir

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,'' was published in 2003 and has sold more than 20,000 copies. In it he challenged the conventional historical wisdom that fellow British explorer

James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...

was the first European to visit the B.C. coast when he sailed into Nootka Sound in 1778 He died of cancer on August 20, 2016.

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