Elwood Veitch

Elwood Neal Veitch (July 21, 1929 He married Sheila Gertrude Boyce in 1953.

He ran as a Social Credit candidate in the 1975 provincial election, and defeated the incumbent New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Jim Lorimer to become the member of the Legislative Assembly for Burnaby-Willingdon. Initially a backbencher, he chaired the legislative committee on crown corporations before being named to Premier Bill Bennett's cabinet in December 1978, serving as Minister of Tourism and Small Business Development.

He lost to Lorimer in the 1979 election, then took the seat back from Lorimer in 1983, He re-entered Bennett's cabinet in February 1986 as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, and retained the role after Bill Vander Zalm took over as premier that August.

Veitch defeated NDP candidate Joan Sawicki in the October 1986 election, before becoming Minister of Regional Development in July 1988; he additionally served as Minister of State for the Mainland/Southwest Region beginning in October 1987. Rita Johnston replaced Vander Zalm as premier in April 1991, and assigned Veitch as Provincial Secretary and Minister responsible for Multiculturalism and Immigration. He ran for re-election that October, but lost to Sawicki as part of the Socreds' electoral collapse.

He died in 1993 at the age of 64.