Harold Steves

Harold Steves (born May 29, 1937) is a Canadian politician. Steves was a longtime city councillor on Richmond, British Columbia City Council, first elected in 1969 and re-elected in 1977, after serving one term as the New Democratic Party of British Columbia MLA from 1972 to 1975. He retired from Council in October 2022.

Personal life Harold Steves is a descendant of Heinrich Stief and Regina Stahlecker, founders of the Steeves family in North America. Other notable descendants of Heinrich and Regina include William Steeves, a Father of Canadian Confederation. established a dairy to provide milk for the fledgling City of Vancouver and were Western Canada's first seedsmen. Born of Maude and Harold Sr., Harold and wife Kathy reside in the old Steves farmhouse, built in 1917, on what is now an cattle farm surrounded by residential development. Steves is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a BSc in agriculture.

Political life

In the late 1950s, Richmond Council rezoned 12,000 acres of farmland for residential use. The Steves farm was rezoned against their wishes. As a result, the Steves were not permitted to build a new dairy for a bulk tank when the milk company stopped picking up milk in cans. They went out of the milk business and switched to beef cattle. Steves began a campaign to save farmland. However, when the farm was assessed residential taxes his father appealed the assessment and lost and subsequently sold most of the farm. In the mid-1960s Steves drafted the initial resolutions to NDP conventions to establish an Agricultural Land Bank system in British Columbia and drafted the Agricultural Land Zone policy for the 1972 election. As an MLA he was active in the establishment of the British Columbia Agricultural Land Reserve

Electoral record Top 8 candidates elected — Incumbents marked with "(X)". Elected members' names are in bold +2018 British Columbia municipal elections: Richmond City Council Party Council candidate Vote % RITE Richmond Carol Day (X) 20,871 7.01 Richmond Citizens' Association Harold Steves (X) 19,136 6.43 Richmond Community Coalition Chak Au (X) 18,026 6.05 Richmond First Bill McNulty (X) 17,242 5.79 Richmond Citizens' Association Kelly Greene 16,464 5.53 Richmond First Linda McPhail (X) 15,521 5.21 RITE Richmond Michael Wolfe 13,627 4.58 Independent Alexa Loo (X) 13,212 4.44 Richmond First Derek Dang (X) 13,115 4.40 Richmond First Andy Hobbs 12,336 4.14 Richmond Citizens' Association Judie Schneider 11,672 3.92 Richmond Community Coalition Ken Johnston (X) 11,161 3.75 Richmond Community Coalition Jonathan Ho 11,140 3.74 Richmond Citizens' Association Jack Trovato 10,915 3.67 Richmond First Sunny Ho 8,933 3.00 RITE Richmond Niti Sharma 8,917 2.99 RITE Richmond Henry Yao 8,467 2.84 Richmond First Peter Liu 8,357 2.81 Richmond Community Coalition Parm Bains 7,973 2.68 Independent John Roston 7,961 2.67 Richmond Community Coalition Melissa Zhang 7,708 2.38 Independent Kerry Starchuk 6,959 2.34 Independent Jason Tarnow 5,720 1.92 Independent Adil Awan 4,278 1.44 Independent Manjit Singh 4,134 1.39 Independent Dennis Page 3,478 1.17 Independent Andy Chiang 3,337 1.12 Independent Theresa Head 3,251 1.09 Independent Patrick J. Saunders 2,241 0.75 Independent Zhe Zhang 2,241 0.75