Geoff Meggs

Geoff Meggs is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2017. He was first elected in the 2008 municipal election, Meggs graduated from the University of Toronto. Meggs' career includes time as a journalist, a communications director in the offices of former premier Glen Clark and former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, an executive director of the BC Federation of Labour, and president of Tideline Communications.

He is the author or co-author of four published books, including Salmon: The Decline of the West Coast Fishery (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991), which won the 1992 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, and Cork Lines and Canning Lines; the Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast, with Duncan Stacey (Douglas & McIntyre, 1992).

Politics In 2002 when the Coalition of Progressive Electors were elected with a majority to Vancouver City Council, their party's caucus became divided, and Meggs ran mayor Larry Campbell's fundraising group, the "Friends of Larry Campbell".

Later, Meggs ran as part of the Vision Vancouver slate in the 2008 election. He received 49,538 votes, in ninth place out of a field of 32 candidates for Vancouver councillor, the fewest votes among the seven elected Vision Vancouver councilors. In 2011, Meggs was re-elected as a Vision Vancouver city councillor with 56,183 votes, sixth out of a field of 40 candidates.

In June 2014, Meggs faced a court petition to remove him and fellow councillor Kerry Jang from office for allegedly violating rules on conflict of interest in connection with the rezoning of a public housing project.

Geoff has been a co-host of the popular BC Politics podcast Hotel Pacifico since October 2023.

Family Meggs and his wife, Jan O’Brien, live with his daughter Claire in False Creek. Their oldest daughter, Caitlin, lives and works in Victoria.

Works 2018: Strange New Country: The Fraser River Salmon Strikes of 1900–1901, 236 pages. Harbour Publishing. 2012: The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 (co-authored with Rod Mickleburgh), Harbour Publishing. 1995: Salmon: The decline of the British Columbia fishery, 274 pages. Douglas & McIntyre. 1992: Cork Lines and Canning Lines (co-authored with Duncan Stacey). Douglas & McIntyre.