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South Okanagan Photos

BC Conservative candidate in Fraser Nicola – a hometown boy

Michael-Beauclair-Fraser-NicolaHometown Son Acclaimed as BC Conservative Candidate for Fraser-Nicola

Michael Grant Beauclair was born in Oct 1969 at St Martin’s hospital, raised and met and in March 1992 married his beautiful wife Nicole in Oliver. His father Grant and grandfather Fred Kempf worked hard to install a strong work ethic in him during the “learning years in the valley.” Michael was employed by Rasmussen Log Homes in Sept 1987 and began working with high-value timber in a labor intensive environment, which gave him an awareness of the value and range of forest products of the “working forest” of the Okanagan Highland. Michael returned to school and obtained his Grade 12 Diploma through OK college in Penticton. After a brief stint in the “oil patch” in Alberta  during the winter of 92/93 he returned to South Okanagan to work for Rasmussen’s again till Dec 94 when an opportunity  to work in Lumby for Unique Timber Corp. came through.  His daughter Desirae was born in Feb 95 in Penticton; he then received his Interior Scaling Licence in May 95.

Opportunity presented itself again in Jan 97, when he was hired by Lytton Lumber Ltd. in the Fraser Canyon as Licenced Scaler and attended British Columbia Institute of Technology on weekends till May 97. His son Damien was born in Lytton in Sept 97, Michael than graduated to the top of his class when he received 85% on the Coastal Scaling and Grading Exam in November at Shoal Island. The Beauclair’s bought their 1st home in June 99 and in Oct 2003 he formed his own small business; Nikaia Creek Contracting to serve the coastal scaling needs of customers in the Fraser Canyon and Valley and Nicola region and ran his business fulltime after Lytton Lumber folded in Jun 2007 till June 2008 when he accepted a position at Tolko Industries Nicola Valley Div. in Merritt as an Official Scaler. He and his family made their move to Merritt when they purchased their 2nd home almost 14 years to the day after they first arrived in Lytton.

On February 23 this year Michael was confirmed publicly as the Candidate for the BC Conservatives for the electoral district of Fraser-Nicola

Michael believes in, and will promote, the ideals of the BC Conservative Party … those include personal freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, limited government, protection of private property rights and a free market system based on honest weights and measures.