Lyle Wicks

Lyle Wicks (November 1, 1912 – February 3, 2004) was a British Columbia politician.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Wicks graduated from McLean High School in Haney, British Columbia, Canada in 1930. He was one of the first employees of the BC Plywoods Company (now defunct), and in 1940 he joined the BC Electric Railway Co., where he worked as a streetcar operator within the Vancouver transit system.

He joined the Social Credit movement in 1943 and became actively involved in its organisational efforts. From 1946 to 1948, Wicks was elected vice-president of the Social Credit Association of Canada, British Columbia Section. He also took on the position of chairman of the Vancouver and District Social Credit Council in 1948.

In 1949, Lyle Wicks was defeated as a Social Credit candidate in the Delta constituency. That year, he also became the founding president of the British Columbia Social Credit League. He was re-elected to this position until the time of his resignation in October 1952. As president, Wicks recruited W.A.C. Bennett to the nascent party after Bennett bolted the British Columbia Conservative Party to sit as an independent MLA in March 1951.

The Lyle Wicks Papers, a collection of records documenting Wicks's political career, is housed at the Trinity Western University Archives.