{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Lyall Hanson | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|7|20}} | birth_place = Domremy, Saskatchewan | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|4|23|1929|7|20}} | death_place = Vernon, British Columbia | constituency_AM1 = Okanagan-Vernon <br><small>Okanagan North (1986–1991)</small> | assembly1 = British Columbia Legislative | term_start1 = October 22, 1986 | term_end1 = May 28, 1996 | predecessor1 = Lyle MacWilliam | successor1 = April Sanders | party = Reform Party (1994–1996)<br>Social Credit (1991–1994) | occupation = Automobile Dealer }}
'''Lyall Franklin Hanson''' (July 20, 1929<ref name="ohandley"/> – April 23, 2018) was a political figure in British Columbia. He represented Okanagan North from 1986 to 1991 and Okanagan-Vernon from 1991 to 1996 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Social Credit then Reform Party member.
He was born in Domremy, Saskatchewan, the son of John Engmond Hanson and Katherine Gertrude Ruep. In 1951 he married Betty Jane Fountain. They had 5 children, Nancy, Gordon, John, Jeanne and Cathy. In 1984, Hanson married Nancy McGaw. He was a car dealer in Vernon and Vancouver in British Columbia.<ref name="ohandley">{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1995 |last=O'Handley |first=Kathryn}}</ref> He served as mayor of Vernon before entering provincial politics.<ref name="cscd"/> Hanson served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Labour and Consumer Services from 1986 to 1989<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worksafebc.com/about_us/history/abt_20_10_30.asp |title=BC Ministers of Labour (1917 – present) |publisher=WorkSafe BC |accessdate=2012-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506124405/http://www.worksafebc.com/about_us/history/abt_20_10_30.asp |archive-date=2015-05-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and as Minister of Municipal Affairs from 1989 to 1991. He was named interim leader for the Social Credit party in 1994 but soon after joined the Reform Party.<ref name="cscd">{{cite web |url=http://www.cscd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/history/bios_stories/hanson_lyall.htm |title=Lyall Hanson (1989–1991) |work=Local Government Department History |publisher=Government of British Columbia |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref> He died in Vernon, British Columbia in 2018 at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/obituaries/lyall-franklin-hanson/|title = Lyall Franklin Hanson Obituary|date = 23 April 2018}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}
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