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Peace River (British Columbia Electoral District)
Peace River was a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance in the 1933 British Columbia general election, general election of 1933, and its last was in 1953 British Columbia general election, 1953. Demographics Geography History Member of Legislative Assembly Electoral history ''Note: Winners of each election are in'' bold. , New Democratic Party of British Columbia, Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Mervin Cecil Simmons , align="right", 800 , align="right", 31.19% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , British Columbia Liberal Party, Liberal , Wallace Archibald Watson , align="right", 749 , align="right", 29.20% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 2,565 !align="right", 100.00% ! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces And Territories Of Canada
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territorial governments are creatures of statute with powers delegated to them by the Parliament of Canada. The powers flowing from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie
Joseph Hardcastle-Cumberland Corsbie (September 28, 1913 – September 14, 1992) was an accountant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Peace River in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1945 to 1949 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia and was educated in Saskatchewan. He served as a flying officer during World War II. Corsbie was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the assembly in 1941. He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1949. Corsbie then became general manager for C.U. & C. Health Services in the lower mainland of British Columbia. He also served as president of the B.C. Credit Union League and of the B.C. Co-op Association and served two years as president of the provincial CCF. He was elected to the Burnaby municipal council in 1964. In 1966, he ran unsuccessfully in the provincial riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain Vancouver-Little Mountain was a provincial elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Peace River
South Peace River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was first contested in the general election of 1956 and last contested in the general election of 1986. It and neighbouring North Peace River were formed by the partition of the old Peace River riding. Redistribution in advance of the 1991 election saw South Peace River adjusted and renamed Peace River South. Notable MLAs Political geography History Election results , - , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Arthur Roald Dahlen , align="right", 1,275 , align="right", 36.24% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Liberal , Harold John Burton , align="right", 456 , align="right", 12.96% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 3,518 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 49 !align= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Peace River
North Peace River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was first contested in the general election of 1956 and last contested in the general election of 1986. It and neighbouring South Peace River were formed by the partition of the old Peace River riding. Redistribution in advance of the 1991 election saw North Peace River adjusted and renamed Peace River North. History Election results , - , Liberal , John William Belesaigne Baker , align="right", 423 , align="right", 20.71% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. , Vera Agnes Loucks , align="right", 359 , align="right", 17.58% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - !align="right" colspan="3", Total valid votes !align="right", 2,042 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - !align="right" colspan="3", Total rejected ballots !align="right", 80 !align="right", !align="right", , - !align="right" colspan="3", Turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles William Parker
Charles William Parker (December 20, 1912 – June 11, 1997) was a clergyman and political figure in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Peace River from 1952 to 1956 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Social Credit member. He was born the son of John Parker and Anne Fido, and was educated in Calgary. In 1939, he married Christina Mary McDonald. Parker was a minister for the Church of the Nazarene The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa within Johnson County, Kansas. With its members co .... He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in the provincial riding of Cowichan-Newcastle in 1956. He died on June 11, 1997, in Saanichton, British Columbia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia Conservative Party
The Conservative Party of British Columbia is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. In the early half of the 20th century, the Conservatives competed with the British Columbia Liberal Party for power in the province. Since the 1950s however, the party has had only a minor presence, not having elected a member of the Legislative Assembly (or MLA) in a general election since 1975. The last sitting MLA for the Conservatives was John van Dongen, who briefly crossed the floor to the party in 2012 before leaving to sit as an independent. Three Conservative leaders have served as Premier of British Columbia: Richard McBride, William John Bowser, and Simon Fraser Tolmie. Two Conservatives have served as Deputy Premier, both during a coalition government in the 1940s: Royal Maitland and Herbert Anscomb. The current party leader is Trevor Bolin. Early history Founding and early years The Conservative Party of British Columbia, known colloquially as the Tories, wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of British Columbia
The British Columbia Liberal Party, often shortened to the BC Liberals, is a centre-right provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition. Subsequent to the 2020 British Columbia general election, then–party leader Andrew Wilkinson announced his resignation on October 26, 2020, but remained as interim leader until Shirley Bond was chosen as the new interim leader on November 23; the party held a leadership election in 2022, which was won by Kevin Falcon. Until the 1940s, British Columbia politics were dominated by the Liberal Party and rival British Columbia Conservative Party. The Liberals formed government from 1916 to 1928 and again from 1933 to 1941. From 1941 to 1952, the two parties governed in a coalition (led by a Liberal leader) opposed to the ascendant Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The coalition was defeated in 1952 and the Liberal Party went into decline, with its rump caucus merging into the Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 British Columbia General Election
The 1952 British Columbia general election was the 23rd general election in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, alongside a plebiscite on daylight saving time and liquor. The election was called on April 10, 1952, and held on June 12, 1952. The new legislature met for the first time on February 3, 1953. It was the first BC general election to use a preferential ballot, a short-lived phenomenon in the province. The presence of multi-member districts, such as Victoria City with 3 MLAs, in conjunction with the alternative voting system called for an innovation where the district's candidates were split into three "ballots", each with one candidate from each party. Due to the preferential ballot, the election resulted in a surprise victory for the new Social Credit Party. Not even the Socreds had expected to win the election; the party had no official leader, and was nominally lead through the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cariboo (electoral District)
Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 to 1892. This riding was first created as Cariboo District following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871. The name was changed to "Cariboo" in 1872, and existed in this form until it was abolished in 1892 when it was amalgamated into the new riding of Yale—Cariboo. In 1914, Yale—Cariboo was redistributed and Yale and Cariboo were separate ridings once again, though with smaller areas than before. The Cariboo riding lasted until 1966. The succession of ridings for the Cariboo area since then has been: *Kamloops—Cariboo (1966—1976) *Cariboo—Chilcotin (1976—2003) * Cariboo—Prince George (2003 - ) *Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo (2004 - ) The Chilcotin region of the riding, west of the Fraser River, was from 1966 to 1976 part of the Coast Chilcotin riding. The original form of the riding was the who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Matheson Murray
George Matheson Murray (July 27, 1889 – August 19, 1961), known publicly as George Murray, was a publisher and politician in British Columbia in the first half of the 20th century. He played a role in the founding of the Boy Scouts of Canada. Murray is best known as the husband of Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray. Early life and career Originally a reporter for the ''Ottawa Citizen'', Murray was schooled informally in politics by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, with whom he rode the streetcar to work every morning. After moving to British Columbia he started a weekly newspaper, ''The Chinook'', from an office in South Vancouver. Murray was active in Liberal Party politics and local society. It was during this period that he hired (and later married) Margaret Lally. Unable to enlist during World War I due to health problems, he folded ''The Chinook'' for financial reasons and moved to Anmore (near Port Moody) and worked as a reporter and editor with the ''Vancouver News-Advertiser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray
Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray, OC (1888 – September 25, 1982, age 94) was an American-Canadian newspaper editor, publisher, and columnist, an officer of the Order of Canada, and the wife of publisher and British Columbia MLA George Murray. The Murray's publications were '' The Chinook'' in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the '' Bridge River-Lillooet News'' in Lillooet and the ''Alaska Highway News'' in Fort St. John. A Kansas farm girl made good and known for her spicy wit, backcountry wisdom, and down-to-earth style, "Ma" was co-founder and editor (with her husband George) of the '' Bridge River-Lillooet News'', the ''Alaska Highway News'' and other publications. Her editorials were famously signed off with the catchphrase "And that's fer damshur!". Early years Born Margaret Theresa Lally in Kansas City, Missouri to Irish immigrants, Margaret was raised on rural Kansas farmland in the United States, largely in poverty. She was the 7th of nine children. She left school at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 British Columbia General Election
The 1945 British Columbia general election was the 21st general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945. The new legislature met for the first time on February 21, 1946. A centre-right coalition was formed by the Liberal and Conservative parties in order to defeat the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Although the Coalition won fewer votes than the Liberal and Conservative parties won in total in the previous election, the Coalition still won over half of the votes, and was able to form a majority government. Results Notes: * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1 Compared to Liberal + Conservative total from previous election 2 Various groups joined forces under the Social Credit name to contest the election. 3 Thomas Dufferin Pattullo (Prince Rupert), former pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
