Ted William Schellenberg (born 11 August 1952 in Dauphin, Manitoba

Dauphin, Manitoba

Dauphin is a small city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 7,906 as of 2006. The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne...

) was a Progressive Conservative party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

 member of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

. He is a broadcaster by trade.

He was elected at the Nanaimo—Alberni

Nanaimo—Alberni

Nanaimo—Alberni is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988...

 electoral district in the 1984 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1984

The Canadian federal election of 1984 was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 33rd Parliament of Canada...

, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament

33rd Canadian Parliament

The 33rd Canadian Parliament was in session from November 5, 1984 until October 1, 1988. The membership was set by the 1984 federal election on September 4, 1984, and it only changed slightly due to resignations and by-elections prior to being dissolved before the 1988 election.It was controlled...

. In the 1988 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1988

The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 34th Parliament of Canada. It was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement ....

, his riding became Nanaimo—Cowichan

Nanaimo—Cowichan

Nanaimo—Cowichan is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988...

 and he was defeated by David Stupich

David Stupich

David Daniel Stupich was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for most years from the 1960s to the 1980s, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993. Stupich was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia to a coal miner.He served five years in the Royal Canadian...

 of the New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

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Schellenberg now works as an overnight anchor at News1130 radio in Vancouver.

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