B.C. to hold public state memorial service for former premier Dave Barrett

The life of former B.C. premier Dave Barrett will be honoured with a public state memorial service in Victoria on Saturday, March 3. 

Barrett, who led the province’s first New Democratic Party government, died on Feb. 2 at the age of 87. 

The service will be held at the Farquhar Auditorium at the University of Victoria on March 3 at 10 a.m. PT. The service is open to the public. 

Barrett’s short-lived government from September 1972 to December 1975 carried out reforms at a blistering pace, including the