VANCOUVER — A celebration of former Mayor Art Phillips’ life will be held at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on Friday, April 26 starting at 3 p.m.
Phillips, one of Vancouver’s most important political figures and the city’s 32nd mayor, died March 29 at the age of 82.
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He is survived by his wife Carole Taylor, his six children, several grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
In his two terms as mayor in the 1970s, Phillips set the foundation for Vancouver’s later emergence as a model for downtown density and neighbourhood-oriented communities.
From reversing a plan to run a freeway along the city’s waterfront to saving the Orpheum Theatre and developing False Creek’s south shore, Phillips sought to create a city that integrated livability with growth.
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