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MLA: Doug Donaldson

Stikine
Elected 2009, 2013
New Democratic Party of British Columbia

Office:

Room 201, Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
Phone: (250) 387-3655
Fax: (250) 387-4680

Constituency:

PO Box 227
4345 Field St.
Hazelton, BC   V0J 1Y0
doug.donaldson.MLA@leg.bc.ca

Phone: (250) 842-6338
Fax: (250) 842-6349
Toll Free Phone:

Constituency:

1175 Main St.
Smithers, BC   V0J 2N0
Phone: (250) 847-8841
Fax: (250) 847-8846

Doug Donaldson was elected as MLA for Stikine in May 2009 and re-elected in May 2013.

Doug serves as Opposition Spokesperson for Energy and Mines.

Prior to becoming an MLA, Doug worked for Storytellers’ Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on community economic development in the region including local food action initiatives. His previous work in Stikine included jobs in forestry, tourism, education, communications and journalism. He has worked as a biologist with a forestry consulting business, as a reporter and columnist with a weekly newspaper, communications director with the Gitxsan Treaty Office, coordinator of the cultural tourism program at Northwest Community College, and instructor with the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en Education Society. He has also owned and operated businesses in the B.C. Rockies.

Doug’s many years in the Northwest included living in Smithers and Telkwa before settling in Hazelton where he was a four-term municipal councillor. He has travelled extensively throughout the Stikine constituency which overlays the traditional territories of seven First Nations.

Doug is married and has two adult children. He enjoys skiing, hiking,running and tending to his chickens, turkeys, sheep and llamas. His formal education includes an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s degree in journalism.

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