When George MacMinn became an Order of B.C. recipient in 2005, he was the longest-serving table officer in any Commonwealth parliament.
Former clerk of the B.C. legislature E. George MacMinn, who served 15 speakers, 11 premiers and hundreds of MLAs in 54 years as a senior official with the legislature, died Tuesday at the age of 92.
Kate Ryan-Lloyd, the current clerk of the house, called MacMinn a dedicated public servant who worked to strengthen the procedures and practices of the legislative assembly. Ryan-Lloyd said his long parliamentary career provided him with unique opportunities to observe and record significant events in the history of the province.
“Anytime one of his children called the clerk’s office, he was to be immediately interrupted,” said Alan MacMinn. “Even if he’s meeting with the premier.” Just five years after their move to Victoria, however, the senior MacMinn drowned in Lake Cowichan. Seeing his father’s hat and an overturned boat, George Jr., 18 at the time, ran for help. Mother Hope MacMinn was left to raise three children.
As a lawyer, he worked for a number of firms, but found his calling when approached by Ned deBeck, then the clerk of the legislature, to serve as clerk assistant in 1957.
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