death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
new westminster , british columbia 22 october 1976 first member laird , saskatchewan tommy douglas ccf/ndp mp for burnaby -- coquitlam january 15 , 1916 november 12 , 1953 erhart regier
 august 20 , 1962 erhart regier teacher
erhart regier

erhart regier -lrb- january 15 , 1916 - october 22 , 1976 -rrb- was a canadian politician , who represented the electoral district of burnaby -- coquitlam in the house of commons from 1953 to 1962 .
originally elected as a co-operative commonwealth federation mp in the 1953 election , he became part of the new democratic party -lrb- ndp -rrb- caucus in 1961 .
regier resigned his house seat on august 20 , 1962 so that federal ndp leader tommy douglas could contest a safe seat in a by-election .
he then stood as the ndp 's candidate in fraser valley in the 1963 election , in algoma west in the 1965 election and in prince george -- peace river in the 1968 election , but was not re-elected to the house in any of the later elections .
