Stanton, John Herbert Frederic

STANTON, John Herbert Frederic, lawyer (b 13 May 1914, Port Hope, ON; d 1 Feb 2002, Victoria). He moved to BC at age 10 with his family when his father took a job as a teacher in a private school on VANCOUVER ISLAND. After graduating from SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL and then UBC, he articled as a lawyer in VANCOUVER and was called to the bar in 1936. Radicalized by the events of the Depression, he joined the Communist Party but grew increasingly disillusioned and left the party in 1968. He was one of...

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