Next he returned to Vancouver and he joined his family real estate company, Bell-Irving Insurance Agencies, which later merged with A.E. LePage in 1972. In 1974 he was elected Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade.
In the Service of the Crown: The story of Budge and Nancy Bell-Irving by Raymond Eagle
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