Background
He was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the son of Leonard Hartley and Sarah Ann Lee, both natives of England, and grew up in Clayburn, British Columbia.
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William Hartley
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He represented Yale from 1963 to 1966 and Yale-Lillooet from 1966 to 1975 as a New Democrat. Hartley settled in Mission, British Columbia He was president of the North Fraser Company-operative Association and served on the board of Cambridge University & C. Health Services. Hartley ran unsuccessfully a number of times as a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate for a seat in federal elections, before he was elected provincially for the New Democratic Party in 1963.
He was subsequently re-elected three times.
He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works, in the New Democratic Party government from 1972-1975 Hartley was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1975. He retired from the insurance business in 1986.
Hartley help found Company-op Fire and Casualty, later The Company-operators. He had three children, Gretchen, Eric and Lisa.
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Political Party
British Columbia New Democratic Party