caption death_date death_place birth_place imagesize party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
walkem pictured c. 1931 13 december 1946 vancouver , british columbia kingston , ontario 180px conservative mla for vancouver city 8 july 1872 1928 gawalkem.jpg george alexander walkem
 1933 g. a. walkem
george alexander walkem

george alexander walkem -lrb- july 8 , 1872 -- december 13 , 1946 -rrb- was a mechanical engineer , businessman and political figure in british columbia .
he represented richmond-point grey from 1924 to 1928 as a provincial party member and vancouver city from 1928 to 1933 as a conservative in the legislative assembly of british columbia .
he was born in kingston , ontario , the son of richard walkem and the former miss henderson , and was educated in kingston and at mcgill university .
in 1909 , he married mary collins .
walkem served in the royal engineers during world war i .
he was reeve of point grey from 1923 to 1924 .
walkem was president of the vancouver machinery depot ltd. , the gulf of georgia towing co. and the b.c. dock co. .
he was defeated when he ran for reelection in the riding of vancouver-point grey in 1933 as a member of the non-partisan independent group .
he died in vancouver at the age of 74 .
