The following article is a list of people who have contested
several elections for the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada, but whose personal biography is otherwise too short to
merit a separate article. It eliminates redundant references under
each year's list of party candidates.
Colin George Atkins
Colin George Atkins is a
political activist in Manitoba
, Canada
. He
is a leading figure in the province's
Christian Heritage Party
organization, having run for the party on four occasions. He has
also campaigned for provincial office as an independent candidate
(the CHP does not run candidates at the provincial level).
Atkins was
born in Leeds
, England
on June 24,
1931, and moved to Canada in 1952. He now lives in
Souris
,
Manitoba. Now retired, he has been involved with the
Christian Heritage Party (CHP) since 1987, and was the President of
its Manitoba organization for three years.
Jean Blaquière
(Party Leader, 1994-1995)
Jean Blaquière was a candidate twice for the CHP.
He ran in the 1993 general election, was elected as the party's
leader in March 1994, ran in the February 1995 byelection in
Brome--Missisquoi, described as Quebec's closest analogue to a
"Bible belt", and stepped down from the leadership in November
1995.
See detailed entry
here.
Durk Bruinsma
Durk Bruinsma is a Canadian politician. He was a
candidate for the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada in four elections.
David W. Bylsma
David W. Bylsma was born in St.
Catharines
, Ontario
in
1970. He graduated from McMaster
University
with a degree in Civil
Engineering, and operates a business manufacturing custom
cabinet doors. He is a member and full-time organist with
the Living Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
[717730] He
opposes
abortion and supports restoration
of the
death penalty (
Hamilton
Spectator, 23 November 2000).
He is a
perennial candidate for
the Christian Heritage Party, having campaigned for the party in
every federal election since 1993. As of 2005, he is the interim
president of the CHP council executive. Bylsma has also been
involved with the
Family Coalition Party at
the provincial level, although he has not campaigned as a
candidate.
His father
Bill and mother
Tilly have also campaigned for the CHP.
Geoffrey Capp
Geoffrey Capp was born in
1959 in London,
Ontario
, Canada), he has run
six times for election in Canada, most of them federally in the
Yukon for the Christian Heritage Party of
Canada.
Capp ran for the CHP in the Yukon constituency in the
1993,
1997,
2000 and
2004 federal elections, and
once for the CHP in the Lethbridge constituency in the
2008 election.
Capp also ran once for the
Yukon Legislative Assembly. In
the
2002 territorial
election, Capp ran as one of two independent candidates in the
McIntyre-Takhini riding, winning 15 votes, 1.66% of the total, and
losing to
John Edzerza of the
Yukon Party.
In 2000, the CHP was not a registered party, so candidates
including Capp were listed as "no affiliation".
Capp had supported the
Progressive
Conservative Party from about 1977 to 1987, but abandoned it
because of what he saw as scandals and financial incompetence of
the Mulroney government.
He is an
Evangelical Christian
and member of the
Church of the
Nazarene.
Ken De Vries
Ken De Vries is a Canadian politician. He has been
a candidate for the
Christian
Heritage Party in five elections from 1993 to 2006, running in
Elgin-Middlesex-London in the later three.
Peter J. Ellis
Peter J. Ellis was born in England in 1939, and
raised in Austria
. He
came to Canada in 1959, and returned to school in the same year.
He holds a
Bachelor of Theology degree
from Toronto Bible College, a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Waterloo
Lutheran University
, and a Master of Arts degree in
History from the University of
Guelph
. He worked as a career counsellor for nine
years, and is now a real estate broker and part owner of Ursula
Travel Ltd. Ellis describes himself as a conservative member of the
Anglican Church of
Canada.
[717731]
Ellis was a
perennial candidate
for the Christian Heritage Party, having campaigned for the party
on five occasions. In 1998, he was appointed as head of the party's
Ontario council.
[717732] Ellis argued in 2006 that he would be willing
to join the
Conservative
Party, if they included
God in their
constitution and opposed
abortion and
same-sex marriage on
principle (
Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 28 January
2006).
Ron Gray
(Party Leader, 1995-2008)
Ron Gray has contested several elections and
byelections for the Christian Heritage Party. Full details at a
separate
article.
Larry R. Heather
Larry R. Heather has contested
several elections and byelections for the Christian Heritage Party.
Full details at a separate
article.
Jim Hnatiuk
Jim Hnatiuk the leader of the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada since November 2008.
Hnatiuk has run for the party in federal elections in 2004, 2006
and 2008.
Dave Joslin
Dave Joslin is a welder-fitter, 54 years old in
2008.
He
lives in Grey Township, and
is a member of the Bethel Free Reformed Church in Mitchell,
Ontario
. He opposes judicial activism, abortion,
embryonic research and hate-crimes legislation.
Dave Joslin ran in the 2003 provincial election for the FCP, his
first provincial campaign. He received 902 votes, finishing fifth
in a field of six candidates. The winner was
Carol Mitchell of the
Ontario Liberal Party.
Joslin has been a candidate five times federally for the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada. His results in the 2006 election were such that he
received more votes than the difference between first and second
place.
Baird Judson
Baird Judson is a perennial candidate for the
Christian Heritage
Party of Canada, and has run in Prince Edward Island ridings in
each election since the party was formed in 1986.
Baird ran in the Hillsborough riding in 1988, 1993, 1997 and
2000.
Baird ran in the Charlottetown riding in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
Harold John Ludwig
Harold John Ludwig is a Canadian politician who
was a candidate for the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada in four elections.
Terry M. Marshall
Terry M. Marshall was born in
Kingston
in 1960. He is a graduate of Frontenac Secondary
School, and accepted a track scholarship to Morehead
State University
in Kentucky
in 1979. He returned to Kingston following a
conversion experience, and became an audio-visual repair technician
after graduating from
St. Lawrence
College in 1983 (
Kingston Whig-Standard, 10 May 1997).
He is a
perennial candidate for
the Christian Heritage Party, having campaigned for the party four
times. Marshall was endorsed by the
Campaign Life Coalition in his first
election as the only candidate in Kingston and the Islands to
oppose
abortion under all circumstances
(
KWS, 27 October 1988). In 1989, he was chosen as
president of the CHP Kingston and the Islands Riding Association
(
KWS, 22 June 1989). He is currently a member of Bayridge
Alliance Church.
[717733]
In late 2005, Marshall announced that the CHP would not field a
candidate in Kingston and the Islands for the
2006 election (
KWS,
12 December 2005).
David J. Reimer
David J. Reimer has contested
several elections for the Christian Heritage Party. Full details at
a separate
article.
Robert Scott
Robert Scott has a Bachelor of Arts degree (1973) and a
certificate of education (1974) from the University
of Manitoba
. He worked as a teacher and social
counsellor with the
Department of Indian
Affairs, and later became a locomotive engineer with the
Canadian National Railway.
He is a retired member of the
Royal Canadian Navy Reserves,
with a rank of
Chief Petty
Officer 2nd Class.
Scott joined the Christian Heritage Party in 1988, and has been
president of the party's Manitoba branch. Once active in the
Roman Catholic church, he now attends
the Shalom Family Worship Centre. He has been a candidate for the
CHP on five occasions.
Eric Truijen
Eric Truijen has a high-school education.
He was
employed as a trucker from 1979 and 1991, when he became a
professional firefighter in the city of
Winnipeg
(Winnipeg Free Press, 2 January
2006). He and his wife have hosted international students at
their house, and he has worked with the Habitat project to
construct inner-city homes.
[717734]
Truijen wrote a letter to the
Winnipeg Free Press newspaper in
1994, criticizing federal
Minister of Justice Allan Rock for adding sexual orientation as a
protected category under the
Canadian Human Rights Act. He
wrote that Rock was "wasting its precious time and our money to do
this", and stated that "people who choose a perverted sexuality"
were "already fully protected under the charter" (10 August
1994).
He has campaigned for the CHP four times.
Edward Vanwoudenberg
(Party Leader, 1987-1991)
See full article
here.
Frank Wagner
Frank Wagner has been a candidate for the
Christian Heritage Party of
Canada in four elections.
References
- "Colin Atkins: No Affiliation", "Election
2000", Globe and Mail, accessed 15 October 2007.
- Elmwood—Transcona: Rob Scott, Christian Heritage
Party, accessed 28 February 2007.
- Elmwood-Transcona riding profile, Canada Votes
2006, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, accessed 1 March
2007.
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