Vancouver—Burrard was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 in British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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, that was represented in 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...

 from 1925 to 1968.

This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Burrard

Burrard (electoral district)

Burrard was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1904 and from 1917 to 1925. This riding was created in 1892 from parts of New Westminster riding.- Election results :...

 riding. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Vancouver Centre

Vancouver Centre

Vancouver Centre is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917.-Geography:...

 and Vancouver East

Vancouver East

Vancouver East is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935....

 ridings.

The district should not be confused with the provincial electoral district of Vancouver-Burrard

Vancouver-Burrard

Vancouver-Burrard was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1933 general election....

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Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

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1. John Arthur Clark
   John Arthur Clark
   John Arthur Clark was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and became a barrister and solicitor....
   
   , Conservative (1925-1930)
2. Wilfred Hanbury
   Wilfred Hanbury
   Wilfred Hanbury was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba and became a lumberman and manufacturer....
   
   , Liberal
   Liberal Party of Canada
   The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
   
    (1930-1935)
3. Gerald Grattan McGeer, Liberal (1935-1945)
4. Charles Merritt
   Charles Merritt
   Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross and Member of Parliament.-Early life:...
   
   , Progressive Conservative
   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....
   
    (1945-1949)
5. John Lorne Macdougall, Liberal (1949-1957)
6. John Russell Taylor
   John Russell Taylor (Canadian politician)
   John Russell Taylor was a Canadian politician. He was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from Vancouver—Burrard from 1957 to 1962.Taylor was defeated in the 1963 general election...
   
   , Progressive Conservative (1957-1962)
7. Thomas Berger
   Thomas Berger (Canadian politician)
   Thomas Rodney Berger, OC, OBC is a Canadian politician and jurist of Swedish descent. Berger was the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party for most of 1969, prior to Dave Barrett.-Background:...
   
   , New Democrat
   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...
   
    (1962-1963)
8. Ron Basford
   Ron Basford
   Stanley Ronald "Ron" Basford, PC was a long-time Canadian Cabinet minister in the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau. Based in British Columbia, he was known as "Mr...
   
   , Liberal (1963]-[1968)

The district was subsequently abolished; Basford continued to represent the riding of Vancouver Centre

Vancouver Centre

Vancouver Centre is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917.-Geography:...

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Election results

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|Prohibition

Prohibition party (Canada)

Edwin Clarke Appleby ran in the 1930 federal election in Canada as a Prohibition candidate at a time when prohibition of alcohol and the temperance movement were waning. Running in the riding of Vancouver—Burrard, Appleby came in last with 266 votes .* Source:...

|Edwin Clarke Appleby
|align="right"|266

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
  Library of Parliament
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