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Bill Reid loses battle with cancer ‘Mr. Surrey’ will be remembered for all the great things he did for city
Tom Zytaruk
M
y most vivid memory of Bill Reid takes us back to Oct. 17, 1991, on a night that rang in the destruction of his beloved Social Credit Party.
He had been working to get Judy Higginbotham elected Socred MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, a seat he had formerly held himself. But Higginbotham, like so many of the party’s candidates – premier Rita Johnston, in Surrey-Newton, among them – were being swept off B.C.’s political map. Not only did that night mark the end of a long-running era of governance under the Socreds, it reduced them to third place – dropping from 47 to seven seats – as the NDP “boogied” into power under Mike Harcourt and the upstart Liberal party became the official opposition.
Reid was a wreck. Sitting alone in the Cloverdale campaign office, with his elbows on his desk and face buried in his hands, he was bemoaning the party’s fate. He was also well aware that the office door was open and that this young reporter (me, at the time) and a photographer were lurking just beyond its jamb. Reid’s despair would have made a helluva shot for the newspaper. But he wouldn’t have it. Every time the camera’s lens drifted in his direction, he immediately regained his composure, straightened up and grinned like a used car salesman. Such was this game we played, and it went on in silence for some time. We never did get the shot. Sadly, Reid, at age 78, lost his battle with cancer Tuesday night. Many will remember Reid for the many great things he did for this city, and rightfully so. The former car dealer was Surrey’s MLA from 1983 to 1986 and represented Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale from 1986 to 1991. Before that, he was a Delta alderman from 1973 to 1978. see REID’S › page 3
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