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MLA: Doug Routley

Nanaimo-North Cowichan


Elected: 2005, 2009

NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

 
E-mail: douglas.routley.mla@leg.bc.ca

Office:
Room 201
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC
V8V 1X4

Ladysmith Constituency:
PO Box 269
524 1st Avenue
Ladysmith, BC
V9G 1A2

Phone:

250 387-3655

Phone:

250 245-9375

Fax:

250 387-4680

Fax:

250 245-8164

 

Nanaimo Constituency:
112 – 50 Tenth Street
Nanaimo, BC
V9R 6L1

 

Phone:

250 716-5221

 

Fax:

250 716-5222

Doug Routley was elected as the MLA for Nanaimo-North Cowichan on May 12, 2009. He served as MLA for Cowichan-Ladysmith from May 17, 2005 until the riding boundaries were re-drawn.

Doug serves as opposition critic for Citizens’ Services and open government.

Doug was born May 9, 1961 in New Westminster, BC and grew up in Duncan. 

He comes from a family of educators and attended the public schools of the Cowichan Valley and attended Camosun College before traveling to Japan, where he lived and worked for one year.

Doug has experience in logging, as a sawmill worker, treeplanter and in construction. He also has been a business owner and operator, school custodian and School Trustee.

While in Japan, Doug taught English and studied Sumea, traditional Japanese ink painting. He was a bicycle racer and while training in Japan, met a bicycle manufacturer. After his return to Canada, Doug established a bicycle retail and wholesale company which had dealers throughout Canada and the USA.

Doug has two daughters, Sasha and Madeline.