British Columbia general election, 1900
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British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....
. The election was called on April 24, 1900, and held on June 9, 1900. The new legislature met for the first time on July 19, 1900.
This was the last election in which political parties were not part of the official process in British Columbia, although because of the political chaos in this year resulting from the joint misrule of Premier Joseph Martin
Joseph Martin (Canadian politician)
Joseph Martin was a lawyer and politician in Manitoba, British Columbia and the United Kingdom often referred to as "Fighting Joe".-Early life:...
and the Lieutenant-Governor, many individual candidates declared their party affiliations in many ridings as a protest against the non-party system.
For more on the political circumstances of this election, please see British Columbia general election, 1898
British Columbia general election, 1898
The British Columbia general election of 1898 was the eighth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.-Party politics:...
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Results by riding
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|align="center"|Edwin Clarke Smith
Edwin C. Smith
Edwin Cleghorn Smith was a miner, rancher and political figure in British Columbia. He represented East Kootenay South in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1903. His name also appears as Edwin Clarke Smith.He was born in Michigan and educated at Ashswamp Academy there....
|align="center" |East Kootenay (south riding)
East Kootenay South
East Kootenay South was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the 1898 and 1900 elections. Its official name was East Kootenay . It was created by the partition of the old East Kootenay riding which also created its sibling, East Kootenay...
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Conservative Opposition
Independent Opposition
|align="center"|Charles William Digby Clifford
Charles William Digby Clifford
Charles William Digby Clifford was an Irish-born miner, trader, hotel owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cassiar from 1898 to 1903 and Skeena from 1903 to 1907 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in Carrick-on-Shannon, County...
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|align="center"|John Oliver
John Oliver (politician)
John Oliver was a politician and farmer in British Columbia, Canada.Oliver was involved in local politics when he won a seat in the provincial legislature in the 1900 election, and became leader of the opposition. He lost his seat in the 1909 election...
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Westminster-Delta
Westminster-Delta was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898. It and its sister ridings Westminster-Chilliwhack, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Richmond were successors to the four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890 only...
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|align="center"|John Cunningham Brown
John Cunningham Brown
John Cunningham Brown was an Irish-born newspaper owner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented New Westminster City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1890 to 1894 and from 1900 to 1901....
|align="center" |New Westminster City
New Westminster City
New Westminster City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1871 to 1912. For other electoral districts in New Westminster, please see New Westminster .- Demographics :- Electoral history :...
Government
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|align="center" |Alberni
Alberni (electoral district)
Alberni was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originally appeared in the British Columbia general election, 1890 and then, after being merged into Cowichan-Alberni for the 1894 election, was renamed Alberni riding in the election of 1898. The riding...
Progressive
|align="center"|Alan Webster Neill
Alan Webster Neill
Alan Webster Neill was a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1921 as the Progressive member for Comox—Alberni, British Columbia....
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|align="center"|Hugh Bowie Gilmour
Hugh Bowie Gilmour
Hugh Bowie Gilmour was a mechanical engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1903....
|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver City
Vancouver City (electoral district)
Vancouver City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was a multiple member riding based in the newly-created city of Vancouver....
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|align="center" rowspan=2|Cariboo
Cariboo (electoral district)
Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1892.This riding was first created as Cariboo District following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871...
Opposition
|align="center"|Joseph Hunter
Joseph Hunter (Canadian politician)
Joseph Hunter was a Scottish-born surveyor, civil engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1871 to 1875 and from 1900 to 1904 and Comox from 1890 to 1898 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in Aberdeen and educated there, concluding his...
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|align="center"|Joseph Martin
Joseph Martin (Canadian politician)
Joseph Martin was a lawyer and politician in Manitoba, British Columbia and the United Kingdom often referred to as "Fighting Joe".-Early life:...
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|align="center"|Samuel Augustus Rogers
Samuel Augustus Rogers
Samuel Augustus Rogers was an Irish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1890 to 1898 and from 1900 to 1903 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia....
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|align="center"|Smith Curtis
Smith Curtis
Smith Curtis was a lawyer and political figure. He represented West Kootenay-Rossland in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1903....
|align="center" |West Kootenay-Rossland
West Kootenay-Rossland
West Kootenay-Rossland was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1898 to 1903.- Demographics :- References :*...
Government
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|align="center" |Comox
Comox (electoral district)
Comox was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was one of the first twelve ridings representing that province upon its joining Confederation, and was a one-member constituency...
Opposition
|align="center"|Lewis Alfred Mounce
Lewis Alfred Mounce
Lewis Alfred Mounce was a lumberman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Comox in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1903....
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|align="center" rowspan=2 |Esquimalt
Esquimalt (electoral district)
Esquimalt was a provincial electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of the province's first twelve ridings upon its entry into Confederation. It was originally a two-member riding...
Independent Opposition
Opposition
|align="center"|William Henry Hayward
William Henry Hayward
William Henry Hayward was an English-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt from 1900 to 1903 and Cowichan from 1907 to 1918 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in Dover, Kent and was educated at the Sutton Vale...
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|align="center"|Charles Edward Pooley
Charles Edward Pooley
Charles Edward Pooley was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Esquimalt in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1882 to 1906 as a Conservative....
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|align="center" |Cowichan
Cowichan (electoral district)
Cowichan was one of the first twelve electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871. It was located on southern Vancouver Island. It was a one-member riding only . Its last appearance on the husting was in 1920...
Independent Conservative
|align="center"|Charles Herbert Dickie
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|align="center" |Lillooet East
Lillooet East (electoral district)
Lillooet East was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was created from the division of the former two-member Lillooet into Lillooet East and Lillooet West, and appeared only in the 1894, 1898, and 1900 elections...
Opposition Progressive
|align="center"|James Douglas Prentice
James Douglas Prentice
James Douglas Prentice was a Scottish-born rancher and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Lillooet East in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 1894 and from 1898 to 1903....
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|align="center" |East Kootenay (north riding)
East Kootenay North
East Kootenay North was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the 1898 and 1900 elections only. Its official name was East Kootenay . It was created by a partition of the old East Kootenay riding which also created its sibling, East Kootenay...
Independent Progressive
|align="center"|Wilmer Cleveland Wells
Wilmer Cleveland Wells
Wilmer Cleveland Wells was a rancher, lumberman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented East Kootenay North from 1899 to 1903 and Columbia from 1903 to 1907 as a Liberal in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.Wells was first elected to the assembly in an 1899 by-election...
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|align="center" |Nanaimo City
Nanaimo City
Nanaimo City was a provincial electoral district in the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia in Canada from 1890 to 1912. It was one of two Nanaimo ridings at the time, created out of the older Nanaimo riding , with intermediary ridings The Islands and Nanaimo and the Islands...
Labour
|align="center"|Ralph Smith
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Opposition
|align="center"|James Dunsmuir
James Dunsmuir
James Dunsmuir was a British Columbian industrialist and politician. Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir to his family's coal fortune. The Dunsmuir family dominated the province's economy in the late nineteenth century and were a leading force in opposing organized labour...
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|align="center" |Lillooet West
Lillooet West (electoral district)
Lillooet West was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was created from the division of the former two-member Lillooet into Lillooet East and Lillooet West, and appeared only in the 1894, 1898, and 1900 elections...
Independent Opposition
|align="center"|Alfred Wellington Smith
Alfred Wellington Smith
Alfred Wellington Smith was an English-born general merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Lillooet from 1889 to 1894 and Lillooet West from 1894 to 1903 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in Bedford and educated at the Epworth Normal School...
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|align="center" rowspan=2 |Vancouver City
Vancouver City (electoral district)
Vancouver City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was a multiple member riding based in the newly-created city of Vancouver....
Conservative
|align="center"|James Ford Garden
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|align="center"|Robert Garnett Tatlow
Robert Garnett Tatlow
Robert Garnett Tatlow was an Irish-born businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Vancouver City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1909 as a Conservative....
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Independent
|align="center"|William Wallace Burns McInnes
William Wallace Burns McInnes
William Wallace Burns McInnes was a Canadian politician, lawyer and served as the Yukon's fifth Commissioner....
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|align="center" |North Victoria
North Victoria
North Victoria was the a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was created from a partition of the old Victoria riding, one of the province's first twelve, and first appeared on the hustings in 1894 as part of a redistribution of the old Victoria riding,...
Independent Liberal
|align="center"|John Paton Booth
John Paton Booth
John Paton Booth was a Scottish-born political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cowichan from 1871 to 1875, The Islands from 1890 to 1894 and North Victoria from 1894 to 1902 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He came to Guelph, Ontario at a young age, was educated in...
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|align="center" |South Victoria
South Victoria
South Victoria was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in 1894 as part of a redistribution of the old Victoria riding, along with North Victoria...
Opposition
|align="center"|David McEwen Eberts
David McEwen Eberts
David McEwen Eberts was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Victoria from 1890 to 1894, South Victoria from 1894 to 1903 and Saanich from 1907 to 1916 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.He was born in Chatham, Ontario, the son of...
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|align="center" |West Kootenay-Nelson
West Kootenay-Nelson
West Kootenay-Nelson was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1898 to 1903.For other ridings named Kootenay or in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay .- Demographics :- Election results :...
Opposition
|align="center"|John Frederick Hume
John Frederick Hume
John Frederick Hume was a miner, notary public and political figure in British Columbia. He represented West Kootenay South in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898....
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|align="center" rowspan=4 |Victoria City
Victoria City (provincial electoral district)
Victoria City was one of the first twelve provincial electoral districts in the province of British Columbia, Canada, upon its entry into Confederation that year. It was originally a four-member riding, and elected to the Legislature several prominent Members of the Legislative Assembly and...
Opposition
|align="center"|Richard Hall
Richard Hall (politician)
Richard Hall was an American-born insurance agent, wholesale coal merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1898 to 1907 as a Liberal.He was born in San Francisco, the son of Richard Hall and Sarah...
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|align="center"|Henry Dallas Helmcken
Henry Dallas Helmcken
Henry Dallas "Harry" Helmcken was a lawyer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 to 1903....
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|align="center"|Albert Edward McPhillips
Albert Edward McPhillips
-Early years:He was the son of George McPhillips and Margaret Lavin, both of whom were Irish and he was the youngest of six boys His father and three brothers were land surveyor's. His brother, George McPhillips Jr...
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|align="center"|John Herbert Turner
John Herbert Turner
John Herbert Turner was a British Columbia politician. Born in Claydon, Suffolk, England, Turner moved to British North America and worked as a merchant in Halifax and Charlottetown. In 1862 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia and founded Turner, Beeton and Co...
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|align="center" |West Kootenay-Revelstoke
West Kootenay-Revelstoke
West Kootenay-Revelstoke was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1898 to 1903.- Demographics :- References :*...
Conservative
|align="center"|Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor (Canadian politician)
Thomas Taylor was a businessman and political figure in British Columbia. He represented West Kootenay-Revelstoke from 1900 to 1903 and Revelstoke from 1903 to 1916 as a Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.He was born in London, Ontario, the son of Thomas Taylor and Anne...
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|align="center" |West Kootenay-Slocan
West Kootenay-Slocan
West Kootenay-Slocan was an electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1898 to 1903.- Demographics :-References:*...
Progressive
|align="center"|Robert Francis Green
Robert Francis Green
Robert Francis Green was a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician, born in Peterborough, Canada West. From 1893 to 1897, Green served three terms as mayor of Kaslo, British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1898 to 1907, representing the...
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|align="center" |Westminster-Chilliwhack
Westminster-Chilliwhack
Westminster-Chilliwhack was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898. It and its sister ridings Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Richmond were successors to the old four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890...
Progressive
|align="center"|Charles William Munro
Charles William Munro
Charles William Munro was a political figure in British Columbia. He represented Westminster-Chilliwhack from 1898 to 1903 and Chilliwhack from 1903 to 1909 as a Liberal....
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|align="center" |Westminster-Dewdney
Westminster-Dewdney
Westminster-Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898. It and its sister ridings Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Chilliwhack and Westminster-Richmond were successors to the old four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890...
Conservative
|align="center"|Richard McBride
Richard McBride
Sir Richard McBride, KCMG was a British Columbian politician and is often considered the founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. McBride was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1898 election, and served in the cabinet of James Dunsmuir from 1900 to 1901...
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|align="center" |Westminster-Richmond
Westminster-Richmond
Westminster-Richmond was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1894 to 1898. It and its sister ridings Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Chilliwhack were successors to the old four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890...
Conservative
|align="center"|Thomas Kidd
Thomas Kidd (British Columbia politician)
Thomas Kidd was an Irish-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Westminster-Richmond in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1894 to 1902....
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|align="center" |Yale-East
Yale-East
Yale-East was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-North were created from the older three-member Yale , which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of...
Opposition
|align="center"|Price Ellison
Price Ellison
Price Ellison was an English-born blacksmith, farmer, rancher and political figure in British Columbia...
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|align="center" |Yale-North
Yale-North
Yale-North was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale , which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of...
Independent Opposition
|align="center"|Frederick John Fulton
Frederick John Fulton
Frederick John Fulton, KC was a British-born and educated Canadian lawyer and politician. He practiced law in Kamloops, British Columbia...
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|align="center" |Yale-West
Yale-West
Yale-West was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale riding, which was one of the province's first twelve as of 1871...
Opposition Progressive
|align="center"|Denis Murphy
Denis Murphy (Canadian politician)
Denis Murphy was a lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Yale-West in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1900 to 1903....
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See also
- List of British Columbia political parties
Further reading & references
- In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974). Despite its title, a fairly thorough account of the politicians and electoral politics in early BC.