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""Boomer""
Yikes, I hadn't realized that wasn't on the page; I can't remember if it was a nickname, something tells me it's a family name; I've always seen it in quotation marks I think, so maybe it was a nickname, inwhich case 'George Anthony ""Boomer"" Walkem would be appropriate; similarly Byron Johnson should be [Byron ""Boss"" Johnson]] (Byron Ingemar ""Boss"" Johnson maybe? - there's a middle name); I used that format for Margaret Lally ""Ma"" Murray because it's an important part of her name, how she was primarily known; same with Boss Johnson and, I think, Boomer Walkem.  The article is pretty dry given the colourful period; and there's no such thing as a stable majority in this period, no matter what it looks like on election day; there were no parties, perosonal alalliances shifted with the bar tab; There's a whole passage that's basically about the Carnarvon Terms but I've kind of gone into that previously aabove, also the public works i nteh '70s being the Lillooet Cattle Trail fiasco; this article like that of othe early Premires in B C needs a lot more juice, a lot more dirt; the source here is the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, which is pretty dry to start with and condenses BC history in strange (to me) ways, among them this terseness and the oblique references to what were actually specific and major items in the provincial polity/political culture.  I don't have BC history books handy, but there's some good stuff on Walkem around...Mark S. Wade's The Cariboo Road'' had some doo-doo on Cariboo politics re Walkem's elections there for instance....I hope maybe one day some other wikipedian slogs through all this and takes on the task of enriching the early Premiers articles; there's so much more intereesting than just the straight bio here.....and on others.....ditto with the Governors of course...and not a few L-G's.  "