Ron Basford, 72, a former federal Canadian Cabinet minister who led the campaign to convert Vancouver’s Granville Island from a rundown industrial area into a thriving tourist mecca, died Monday ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Ron Basford, a former Canadian federal Cabinet minister who led the campaign to convert the city’s Granville Island from a rundown industrial area into a thriving tourist ...

Ron Basford, one of B.C.'s longest-serving federal Liberal cabinet ministers, has died of a heart attack. He was 72. The former Liberal MP was a key figure in Ottawa during the Trudeau era.

Today, Ron Basford's vision of Granville Island is reality: the city's No. 1 attraction, its number of visitors surpassing even the eight million or so who tread the well-trampled tourist turf of ...

A group rallied at Ron Basford Park on Vancouver's Granville Island on Sunday to protest the culling of domestic rabbits that have spread in the area. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ...