MLA: Maurine Karagianis - Esquimalt-Royal Roads

We thank You Lord for MLA: Maurine Karagianis and her many years of service to the people in the Victoria area.  We pray for wisdom, strength, and understanding as she faces the challenges that are before us in the coming year. We ask for a blessing upon her and her family including her children and grandchildren.  May she experience peace this day especially and be strengthened as we pray for her. May she also find rest and relaxation this summer and be refreshed in body, soul and spirit. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Maurine Karagianis was elected MLA for Esquimalt-Metchosin on May 17, 2005, and re-elected to the reconfigured riding of Esquimalt-Royal Roads on May 12, 2009.

Maurine serves as official opposition caucus Whip.

She was elected to Esquimalt Council in 1996. Serving for three terms, Maurine helped create and chaired the CRD Arts Committee, and by working to save the Matson Gary Oak meadow in the Inner Harbour and daylighting the Gorge Creek helped enrich green space and renew bird habitat in Esquimalt.

A long-standing Director of the Veins of Life Watershed Society, Maurine has worked in support of environmental stewardship for the Gorge Waterway and watershed protection in the Capital Region.

She worked in the fashion industry for over 15 years, in retail, wholesale and import/export, and also spent more than a decade working in the communications industry for the tourism market and international motorcycle industry.

Maurine ran a consulting firm that worked with non-profit organizations and First Nations communities to create affordable housing. Her career has also included working for the provincial Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Social Services.

A proud mother and grandmother, Maurine lives with her partner in Esquimalt.