Hugh Austin Curtis

Hugh Austin Curtis (October 3, 1932 – May 27, 2014) was a sales manager and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Saanich and the Islands in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1972 to 1986 as a Progressive Conservative then Social Credit member.

Biography
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of Austin Ivor Curtis and Helen Shepherd, and was educated there. In 1957, he married Sheila Diane Halford.

Curtis served on the municipal council for Saanich and was mayor from 1964 to 1973. He left the Progressive Conservatives to join the Social Credit party in 1974. Curtis served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1975 to 1978), as Provincial Secretary and Minister of Government Services (1978 to 1979 and then again in 1986), and as Minister of Finance (1979 to 1986). In 2002, he was awarded the Freeman of Saanich distinction.

He died of cancer on May 27, 2014, in a Victoria hospital.