Andrew McCreight Creery was an Irish

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-born financial, real estate and insurance agent and political figure in British Columbia

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. He represented Vancouver City

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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 from 1924 to 1928 as a Provincial Party

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 member.

He was born in Ardglass

Ardglass

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, County Down

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, the son of Andrew Creery and Alice Tate, and was educated at Foyle College

Foyle and Londonderry College

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 in Derry

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 and Trinity College

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 in Dublin. Creery came to Canada in 1888, first settling in Calgary, Alberta. He married Anna Hulbert the following year. In 1890, he moved to Vancouver. Creery was a Grand Master in the Freemasons.

His son Second Lieutenant Ronald Hulbert Creery was killed in France in 1917 during World War I

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