Category: BC premiers
So, yeah, remember like a million years ago when I was writing a series of postings on BC Premiers – one posting every Sunday – as an excuse to learn a bit about BC history? And then I kind of just didn’t do it for the last eight months? Well, I’ve decided to start doing […]
Good news: I’m blogging after four whole days without blogging ((You may pick from one of my many possible excuses, including: work is busy, teaching is busy, I spend 7.5 hours per week driving to and from work, I’m lazy)). Bad news: I’m back to writing boring blog postings about ancient BC premiers. And, with […]
The 20th Premier of the Province of British Columbia was Simon Fraser Tolmie. I have no idea if he was related to the explorer Simon Fraser after whom the University, the river and a billion other things in BC were named. He doesn’t appear to have been a direct descendant, as Simon Fraser the Explorer […]
Today’s entry in my BC Premier Series is going to be short, as apparently John Duncan MacLean was the least memorable person in history. There’s a teeny tiny entry on him in Wikipedia and there isn’t even an entry on him in the Canadian Biography Online and you know as well as I do that […]
Name John Oliver Born: July 31, 1856 in Hartington, England Died: August 17, 1927 in Victoria, BC Party: Liberal Held Office: March 6, 1918 to August 17, 1927 from a farming family that immigrated to Maryborough Township, Ontario, Canada in 1870 his mother died from rheumatic fever in 1875 moved west at age 20 and […]
There is very, very little information available online about the 16th Premier of the Province of British Columbia – William John Bowser! And I’m too lazy to go to the library and read actual books, so today’s entry is a short one! Name William John Bowser Born: December 3, 1867 in Rexton, New Brunswick Died: […]
Sir Richard McBride, the 15th Premier of the Province of British Columbia. Name Sir Richard McBride, KCMG Born: December 15, 1870 in New Westminster, BC Died: August 6, 1917) in London, UK Party: BC Conservative Held Office: June 1, 1903 – December 15, 1915 considered the founder of the (now pretty much defunct1) BC Conservative […]
The 14th Premier of the Province of British Columbia, Mr. Conflict-of-Interest McElection-Rules-Violations. Name Edward Gawler Prior Born: Dallowgill, England on May 21, 1853 Died: December 12, 1920 in Victoria, BC Party: none Held Office: November 21, 1902 to June 1, 1903 came to BC after practising as a mining engineer until 1873 1886: won a […]
Look at me – posting in my BC Premier series two weeks in a row! Go me! This week’s installments gives us James Dunsmuir, the 13th person to be Premier of BC and (possibly) the guy that Dunsmuir Street is named after. Name James Dunsmuir Born: July 8, 1851 in Fort Vancouver Died: June 6, […]
Hey, remember when I used to write postings every Sunday about BC Premiers? And then I got all busy and such and said I was proroguing my series until the classes I was teaching were done? And then my classes ended by I’ve just been lazy since then? Yeah, while I’m totally making a comeback, […]