Biografie
He was the son of John Jacob Grauer.
He was the Rhodes Scholar from BC in 1927.
He studied law at Oxford and received a PhD degree in economics from the University of California.
He was appointed as Director of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto.
He was a member of the Canadian Olympic Lacrosse Team at Amsterdam in 1928.
He married Shirley Woodward in 1933 the daughter of grain elevator operator Ernest Woodward.
In 1939 he was the General Secretary of BC Electric.
He was appointed as President and Chairman of the Board of BC Electric in 1945.
He was the last President of the BC Electric Railway being given the job of Secretary by the Power Corporation in 1939 and President in 1946.
He served as the Chancellor of UBC in 1957.
Referenzen
- BC Hydro Power Pioneers (1998)
- Kluckner, M. (1993)
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie. (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press
- Ross, Leslie J. (1979)
