caption death_date death_place birth_place imagesize party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
shelly pictured c. 1931 13 august 1951 vancouver , british columbia ontario 180px conservative mla for vancouver city 17 september 1878 1928 wcshelly.jpg william curtis shelly
 1933 william curtis shelly
william curtis shelly

william curtis shelly -lrb- september 17 , 1878 -- august 13 , 1951 -rrb- was a businessman and political figure in british columbia .
he represented vancouver city from 1924 to 1928 in the legislative assembly of british columbia as a conservative .
he was born in ontario in 1878 and came to vancouver to expand his bakery business .
shelly 's bakery was known for its `` four-x bread '' .
during the 1920s , he helped create a conglomerate known as canadian bakeries ltd. to which he sold his business .
shelly became vice-president and general manager of the new company .
he was also president of the home oil co. ltd. , canada grain export co. ltd. , guaranty savings and loan , crescent beach development co. ltd. , grouse mountain highway and scenic resort ltd. and the shelly building .
shelly served as finance minister in the provincial cabinet .
in the fiscal year 1929/1930 , the province suffered a fairly small deficit of $ 135,000 .
shelly projected an increase of government revenues and a small surplus for the following fiscal year ; instead , revenues decreased and expenditures were larger than projected , resulting in a then-record deficit of $ 4.8 million .
shelly was transferred to the position of president of the executive council in october 1930 .
he also suffered a large personal financial loss when share prices for home oil co. ltd. bottomed out in the years following the stock market crash .
he retired from politics in 1933 .
shelly died in vancouver at the age of 72 .
