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A Chosen Path - From Moccasin Flats to Parliament Hill (Paperback)
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A Chosen Path - From Moccasin Flats to Parliament Hill (Paperback)
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The day he was elected mayor of Chetwynd BC was a special one in
Frank Oberle's life. As a youth he had made his way across the
battle-scarred landscape of Germany, the bombs of Dresden still
ringing in his ears. As a teen he had crossed the Atlantic in the
bowels of a derelict freighter, finally reaching the refugee
barracks at Halifax. With bleak prospects on the eastern seaboard,
he made his way across Canada to find work in the remote Queen
Charlotte Islands. And that was the beginning of a new life that
eventually saw Oberle rise from self-educated immigrant to
politician. The first volume of Frank's autobiography, Finding
Home, recounts his youth and his journey to British Columbia. The
second volume continues his remarkable story, tracing his path from
mayor of Chetwynd to member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace
River. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1972 and
re-elected for six consecutive terms. He was appointed to Cabinet
in 1985 as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's minister of state for
science and technology, and four years later, as minister of
forestry, his determination led him to confront the industry's
clear-cutting practices and demand sustainable forest management.
Now, more than a decade removed from that heady time and place,
Frank Oberle combines reflection and the perspective of retirement
to shed light on what is right and what is wrong in our political
world.
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