Jim Hewitt

James J. Hewitt (born January 28, 1933) is a retired Canadian politician who represented the riding of Boundary-Similkameen in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1975 to 1987. A member of the Social Credit Party, he held several ministerial roles in the Executive Council of British Columbia under premiers Bill Bennett and Bill Vander Zalm.

Biography Hewitt was born and raised in Toronto, then moved to Vancouver in 1962 where he attained his accounting designation. He settled in the Okanagan in 1967, and worked as a manager at the Penticton and District Credit Union; he was elected Penticton alderman in 1969. Initially without a cabinet post, he was named Minister of Agriculture in October 1976 by Premier Bill Bennett, then served as Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources from December 1978 to November 1979. After winning re-election in May 1979, Boundary-Similkameen became a two-member district in that October's election; Hewitt was re-elected there alongside Ivan Messmer. He was not given a cabinet position, he subsequently served seven years as chairman of the Farm Credit Corporation.

He met Dorothy Barber when she worked on his campaign in 1979; He has four children with his first wife Sheila.