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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Art Phillips
- Arthur "Art" Phillips (September 12, 1930 – March 29, 2013) served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977.
- Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North.
- Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM (The Electors' Action Movement), in 1968.
- Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council. Under Phillips' mayoral leadership, the city of Vancouver took a more cautious approach to real estate and related development and ensured that environmental and quality-of-life concerns were addressed by city planners. Phillips was elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1979 as a Liberal, but was defeated the following year in his bid for re-election.
- After Phillips' defeat, he returned to private life at his investment firm.
- By 2007, Phillips, Hager & North had become a leading investment firm on the west coast, with over $66 billion of assets under management. His wife, Carole Taylor, served as a Vancouver alderman in the 1980s and then as chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- In the 2005 British Columbia election she won election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as a Liberal and was subsequently appointed Minister of Finance in Gordon Campbell's cabinet. During his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbia (B.Com., 1953), Phillips was a member of the British Columbia Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and was their chapter President in 1950.
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