Dorothy Gretchen Steeves

Biography Born in Amsterdam as the eldest of three children to a Dutch physician and a British teacher, she studied law and economics at Leiden University, receiving a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916. She then briefly worked at private practices in Amsterdam and The Hague before joining a Dutch government rationing bureau as legal adviser during World War I. She tried to re-enter the provincial legislature by running in a 1946 by-election in Vancouver-Point Grey, and for the New Democratic Party (successor to the CCF) in Vancouver Quadra in 1963, but was defeated both times.

Away from the legislature, Steeves served in CCF executives at the provincial and federal levels, including as vice-president for the BC CCF's provincial council in 1949, and as provincial council president in 1950.

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