Robert Broughton (activist)

Robert Stanley Broughton (born January 26, 1950) served as President of the Vancouver Bicycle Club from 1992 to 1994, and was president of Airspace Action on Smoking and Health from 1996 to 2001.[1] He was president of the New Westminster Tennis Club in 2006 and 2007. As President of the Vancouver Bicycle Club, he played a role in the establishment of the Union-Adanac bicycle route, and was one of the founders of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition. As President of Airspace, he:

Broughton was also a long-term Director of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

He has been a computer programmer since graduating from Virginia Tech in 1972. He realized the potential of the Internet when Mosaic started getting widespread usage, and was responsible for the Vancouver Bicycle Club, Airspace, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee getting head starts in having an Internet presence. His work on the Western Canada Wilderness Committee site included the campaign to protect the Ursus Valley in Clayoquot Sound, and he also created a site for the Ahousaht First Nations' Women's eco-tourism initiative in 1995. He created a web page for the now-defunct Progressive Democratic Alliance, which made that party one of the first political parties to have a web presence.

Broughton was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He lived mostly in Virginia (except for some time in New Jersey and Florida) until moving to Vancouver in 1981. He lived in Oslo, Norway for 312 years in the late 1980s. He became a Canadian citizen in 1994. He was the Green Party candidate for New Westminster in the 2001 and 2005 provincial elections.

He has traveled extensively in Northern Europe, Peru, Mexico, and Russia. He retired in 2012, and now lives in Guanajuato, Mexico. He is active in the San Miguel de Allende chapter of PEN International.

Notes

  1. Beswetherick, Loreth (2000-03-31). "AIRSPACE outlines 'real' cost, motive of tobacco company advertising". Pique newsmagazine. Retrieved 2007-01-14.
  2. Hughes, Fiona (1996-06-30). "Ethics of UBC smoking research in question". Vancouver Courier. p. 6.

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