28th Parliament of British Columbia
Members of the 28th General Assembly
Table:
Member	Electoral district	Party

Howard Richmond McDiarmid	Alberni	Social Credit

Frank Arthur Calder	Atlin	NDP

Francis Xavier Richter	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit

Gordon Dowding	Burnaby-Edmonds	NDP

Eileen Dailly	Burnaby North	NDP

Fred Vulliamy	Burnaby-Willingdon	NDP

William Collins Speare	Cariboo	Social Credit

William Kenneth Kiernan	Chilliwack	Social Credit

James Roland Chabot	Columbia River	Social Credit

Daniel Robert John Campbell	Comox	Social Credit

David Barrett	Coquitlam	NDP

Robert Martin Strachan	Cowichan-Malahat	NDP

Robert Wenman	Delta	Social Credit

George Mussallem	Dewdney	Social Credit

Herbert Joseph Bruch	Esquimalt	Social Credit

Ray Gillis Williston	Fort George	Social Credit

Philip Arthur Gaglardi	Kamloops	Social Credit

Leo Thomas Nimsick	Kootenay	NDP

Hunter Bertram Vogel	Langley	Social Credit

Isabel Dawson	Mackenzie	Social Credit

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Howard Richmond McDiarmid ( June 3 , 1927 - August 25 , 2010 ) was a physician and political figure in British Columbia . He represented Alberni in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1972 as a Social Credit member . Born in Edmonton , Alberta in 1927 , he grew up in the Canadian prairies and was educated in medicine at the University of Manitoba . McDiarmid interned at the Vancouver General Hospital and moved to Tofino in 1955 . He was the only physician there until 1972 , delivering more than 100 babies a year . McDiarmid married Lynn Honeyman , a nurse he had met in Banff while he was a student . In the 1970s , he helped establish Pacific Rim National Park Reserve . With his son Charles , he opened the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino in 1996 . McDiarmid later practised in Vancouver and then California . He wrote Pacific Rim Park : a country doctor 's role in preserving Long Beach and establishing the new Wickaninnish Inn no-repeat ; background-position : right .1em center } .
Alberni was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It originally appeared in the 1890 election and then , after being merged into Cowichan-Alberni for the 1894 election , was renamed Alberni riding in the election of 1898 . The riding lasted by that name until 1933 and 1937 , when the name Alberni-Nanaimo was used . In 1941 the Alberni riding name was restored . The area is now represented by Alberni-Qualicum .
The British Columbia Social Credit Party , whose members are known as Socreds , was the governing provincial political party of British Columbia , Canada , for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election . For four decades , the party dominated the British Columbian political scene , with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the British Columbia New Democratic Party governed . Although founded as part of the Canadian social credit movement , promoting social credit policies of monetary reform , the BC Social Credit Party later discarded the ideology and became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in British Columbia . The party essentially collapsed within one term of its 1991 defeat . It has not been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 1996 , and only existed in a nominal fashion from around 2001 to 2013 when the party was deregistered for failing to nominate more than two candidates in two consecutive provincial elections . The party re-registered in June 2016 to participate in the 2017 election . Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell started her political career in the BC Social Credit Party .
Frank Arthur Calder , OC OBC ( August 3 , 1915 - November 4 , 2006 ) was a Nisga ' a politician in Canada , the first First Nations person to be elected to any legislature in Canada . Born in Nass Harbour , British Columbia , Calder was the first indigenous person to graduate from the Anglican Theological College of the University of British Columbia . Mr. Calder was an hereditary chief of the House of Wisinxbiltkw from the Killerwhale Tribe . He died November 4 , 2006 at an assisted-living home in Victoria from the effects of cancer and recent abdominal surgery .
Atlin was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It made its first appearance on the hustings in the 10th provincial general election in 1903 and last appeared in the 34th provincial general election in 1986 , after which it was merged with the Skeena riding .
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia [ a ] ( BC NDP ) is a social-democratic provincial political party in British Columbia , Canada , which currently governs the province . It previously governed from 1972 to 1975 and from 1991 to 2001 . Following a hung parliament as a result of the 2017 election and the BC Liberal government 's failure to win a confidence vote in the legislature , the BC NDP secured a confidence and supply agreement with the BC Green Party to form a minority government . The BC NDP is the British Columbia provincial arm of the federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ) . The party won the largest number of seats in three provincial elections , 1972 , 1991 and 1996 , but was reduced to two seats in the 2001 before rebounding in 2005 and returning to government in 2017 . Six leaders of the NDP have served as Premier of British Columbia : Dave Barrett , Mike Harcourt , Glen Clark , Dan Miller , Ujjal Dosanjh , and John Horgan .
Francis Xavier ( Frank ) Richter Jr. ( July 12 , 1910 - November 20 , 1977 ) was a Canadian politician , who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Mines in the Social Credit government of W.A.C . Bennett in the province of British Columbia . He represented the riding of Similkameen from 1953 to 1966 and its successor riding Boundary-Similkameen from 1966 to 1975 . Born in Keremeos , British Columbia , he was the youngest son of Frank Richter , Sr. , who settled in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia in 1864 and became a successful rancher and entrepreneur there , and his wife , Florence Elizabeth Loudon . The elder Richter had five daughters and six sons , of whom the youngest was Frank Jr. Richter was a cattle rancher and fruit grower . He died at Brentwood Bay at the age of 67 .
Boundary-Similkameen is a provincial riding formed in 2008 . It includes the populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley , West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet . The riding 's name corresponds to that of a former riding in the same area , with similar but not identical boundaries ( see History section ) .
Gordon Hudson Dowding ( March 1 , 1918 - November 9 , 2003 ) was a lawyer and politician in British Columbia , Canada . He represented Burnaby and then Burnaby-Edmonds in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1956 to 1975 as a CCF/NDP member . He was born in Kamloops and educated there and at the University of British Columbia . In 1945 , he married Gwen Olson . Dowding was called to the British Columbia bar in 1952 and the Alberta bar in 1967 . He was an unsuccessful candidate in the provincial riding of Lillooet in 1952 and 1953 . Dowding was the speaker of the British Columbia Legislature from 1972 to 1975 . He was defeated by Ray Loewen when he ran for reelection in 1975 . In 1962 , Dowding was a founding member of the B.C . Civil Liberties Association . He died in 2003 .
Burnaby-Edmonds is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada .
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly ( February 15 , 1926 - January 17 , 2011 ) was an educator and political figure in British Columbia , Canada . She represented Burnaby North in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1986 as a New Democratic Party ( NDP ) member . She was born Eileen Elizabeth Gilmore , the daughter of Joseph Gilmore and Mary Scott , in Vancouver , British Columbia and taught school for ten years in British Columbia . In 1951 , she married James Dailly . She served ten years as a school trustee and was chairman of the Burnaby School Board for four years . In the assembly , Dailly served as deputy premier and as Minister of Education . As education minister , she banned corporal punishment in schools in 1973 ; she also introduced mandatory kindergarten and created the first First Nations school board in the province ( School District 92 Nisga ' a ) . She retired from politics in 1986 . From 1988 to 1991 , she hosted a senior 's program on community cable television called Coming of Age . Dailly died on Salt Spring Island at the age of 84 from complications following skin cancer surgery .
Burnaby North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada .
Frederick Justin Fred Vulliamy ( 1913 - October 20 , 1968 ) was a chartered accountant and politician in British Columbia . He represented Burnaby-Willingdon in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1968 as a New Democratic Party ( NDP ) member . He was born in Winnipeg and came to Vancouver , British Columbia with his family five years later . Vulliamy worked for the Alaska Pine Company for three years as an accountant before setting up his own practice . He was elected provincial president of the NDP in 1962 . He was a director and later president of the Kitsilano Ratepayers ' Association . Vulliamy was an unsuccessful candidate in the provincial riding of Vancouver Centre in 1963 . He moved to Burnaby after being elected to the assembly in 1966 . Vulliamy died in office two years later .
Burnaby-Willingdon was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada from 1966 to 2009 .
William Collins Speare ( August 24 , 1915 - May 31 , 1999 ) was a Canadian politician . He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1957 to 1969 , as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Cariboo .
Cariboo was one of the twelve original electoral districts created when British Columbia became a Canadian province in 1871 . Roughly corresponding to the old colonial electoral administrative district of the same name , it was a three-member riding until the 1894 election , when it was reduced through reapportionment and became a two-member riding until the 1916 election , after which it has been a single-member riding . It produced many notable Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) , including George Anthony Boomer Walkem , third and fifth holder of the office of Premier of British Columbia and who was one of the first representatives elected from the riding ; John Robson , ninth Premier of British Columbia ; and Robert Bonner , a powerful minister in the W.A.C . Bennett cabinet , and later CEO of MacMillan Bloedel and BC Hydro .
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Chilliwack has been a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia since 1916 . Incorporating slightly different boundaries , it was the successor riding to the Chilliwhack riding the name of which was based on the older spelling of the name .
James Roland Jim Chabot ( May 8 , 1927 - October 9 , 1989 ) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada for the riding of Columbia and its successor Columbia River from 1963 to 1986 . He was born in Farnham , Quebec , and moved to British Columbia during the 1950s . He was employed as a railway supervisor . In 1973 , he ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Social Credit party . Chabot served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Petroleum Resources , Minister of Lands , Parks and Housing and Provincial Secretary . He did not run for reelection in 1986 . Chabot died at home in Invermere at the age of 62 . James Chabot Provincial Park on Windermere Lake in the Columbia Valley region , which was part of his riding , is named for him .
Columbia River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1986 . The riding 's predecessor , which was named Columbia , appeared on the hustings from 1903 to 1963 . The successor riding in this region is the current Columbia River-Revelstoke riding . For other historical and current ridings in the region see Kootenay ( electoral districts ) and Okanagan ( electoral districts ) .
Daniel Robert John Campbell ( January 22 , 1926 - April 5 , 1992 ) was a Canadian politician . He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1956 to 1972 , as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Comox . He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Municipal Affairs . He died in 1992 .
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 . The core of this once-vast riding , which at its inception stretched to the Yukon border , is now named Comox Valley .
David Barrett , OC OBC ( October 2 , 1930 - February 2 , 2018 ) was a politician and social worker in British Columbia , Canada . He was the 26th Premier of British Columbia for three years between 1972 and 1975 .
Coquitlam was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1975 . The riding 's successor was the Coquitlam-Moody riding . For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster ( electoral districts ) and/or Vancouver ( electoral districts ) .
Robert Martin Strachan ( December 1 , 1913 - July 21 , 1981 ) was a trade unionist and politician . He was the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in British Columbia history . Born in Glasgow , Scotland , Strachan was a carpenter by trade . He immigrated to Canada after quitting a 10-shilling-a-week job as messenger boy in Glasgow to go to Nova Scotia on a $ 10-a-week farm labor scheme . He moved west , in 1931 , to the northern B.C . copper-smelting town of Anyox and then to Powell River , where he became a carpenter and an active unionist eventually becoming British Columbia head of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America . In 1952 , he was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly as an MLA for the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation . In 1956 , he was elected CCF leader thus becoming Leader of the Opposition to the Social Credit government of W.A.C . Bennett . Strachan 's CCF ran in the 1960 general election on the platform of nationalizing the province 's private hydro-electric company , B.C . Electric . Bennett denounced the idea during the election campaign but , in 1961 , turned around and announced plans to do exactly that in order to create BC Hydro leading Strachan to denounce the Social Credit government as hypocrites .
Cowichan-Malahat was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It first appeared in the general election of 1966 . In the 1991 general election , it was succeeded by Cowichan-Ladysmith and Malahat-Juan de Fuca .
Robert Lloyd Wenman ( 19 June 1940 - 14 June 1995 ) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada . He was a businessman , investment counsellor and teacher by career . Wenman was born in Maidstone , Saskatchewan and attended the University of Saskatchewan and various schools in the United States . In 1966 , he became a member of British Columbia 's provincial legislature for the Social Credit party , setting a record as youngest MLA at that time . He was first elected at the Fraser Valley West riding in the 1974 federal election . He was re-elected in that riding four times , in 1979 , 1980 , 1984 and 1988 . He left federal politics after this and did not campaign in the 1993 federal election . After a long-term bacterial infection contracted during a business trip to Asia , Wenman died a few days before his 55th birthday .
Delta was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on the municipality of Delta at the mouth of the Fraser River between the city of Vancouver and the US border . It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and its last in the election of 1986 , after which it was succeeded by Delta North and Delta South , which are the current ridings in the area .
George Mussallem ( January 5 , 1908 - April 10 , 2007 ) was an automobile dealer and political figure in British Columbia . He represented Dewdney in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1972 and from 1975 to 1983 as a Social Credit member . He was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , the son of Solomon Mussallem and Annie Besytt , both natives of Lebanon . Mussallem moved with his family to Prince Rupert and Vancouver . In 1919 , the family settled in Haney . The family business represented Ford and later General Motors . Mussallem also served as president of the Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts in British Columbia . He was married twice : first to Beth Brown in 1934 and then to Grace Cuthbert in 1970 . Mussallem received his pilot 's license in 1929 and continued to fly until his late 70s . He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1972 . Mussallem , who served as whip for the Social Credit Party in the assembly , retired from politics in 1983.| His sister Helen was considered to be considered to be one of the top nurses in the world and served with the World Health Organization to develop nurse training and triage systems . He died in 2007 .
Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney , which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding , which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster riding , which was one of the province 's first twelve .
Herbert Joseph Bruch ( March 16 , 1920 - May 26 , 1993 ) was a fruit farmer , businessman , civil servant and political figure in British Columbia . He represented Esquimalt in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1953 to 1972 as a Social Credit member . He was born in Killaly , Saskatchewan , the son of Joseph F. Bruch and Elizabeth Engel . In 1944 , Bruch married Alice C. Gaudet . Before being elected to the assembly , he was employed by the British Columbia hospital insurance service . Bruch was defeated by James Henry Gorst when he ran for reelection in 1972 . He died in 1993 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm .
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 . Its successor riding today is Esquimalt-Metchosin .
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Fort George was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1916 to 1975 . Its successor ridings were Prince George South and Prince George North .
Philip Arthur Gaglardi ( January 13 , 1913 - September 23 , 1995 ) , sometimes known as Flying Phil was a politician in the Canadian province of British Columbia . He is best known for his service as Minister of Highways in the BC government from 1955 to 1968 .
Kamloops was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada from 1903 to 2009 . The provincial constituency should not be confused with the former federal electoral district of Kamloops , which encompassed a much larger area . For other ridings named Kamloops or in the Kamloops-Shuswap-Thompson area , please see Kamloops ( electoral districts ) . Kamloops voted for the winning party in every election it was contested , from the riding 's creation in 1903 up until its final election in 2005 .
Leo Thomas Nimsick ( January 26 , 1908 - February 8 , 1999 ) was a miner and political figure in British Columbia . He represented Cranbrook from 1949 to 1966 and Kootenay from 1966 to 1975 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then New Democratic Party member . He was born in Rossland , British Columbia , the son of Thomas Nimsick and Anna Caesar . In 1934 , he married Marie K. Zimmer . Nimsick worked at diamond drilling and dairy farming ; he later worked for Cominco for 40 years , retiring in 1968 . He served four years as an alderman for Rossland . Nimsick ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1937 . He ran for the leadership of the CCF in 1956 , coming second to Robert Strachan . Nimsick later served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Petroleum and as Minister of Travel Industry . He died in 1999 at the age of 91 .
Kootenay was a provincial electoral district in the province of British Columbia , Canada , from 1871 to 1890 . It was originally a two-member riding until the 1875 election ; from 1878 , it was a one-member seat until its partition for the 1890 election into East Kootenay and West Kootenay . For the 1966 election , the riding-name was re-established , but the area described was only the East Kootenay and included none of the West Kootenay .
Hunter Bertram August Vogel ( August 4 , 1903 - April 25 , 1990 ) was a Canadian politician . He served in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly from 1966 to 1972 , as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Langley . He was born in 1903 to Hans Broder Anton Vogel , a German ( Danish ? ) immigrant , and Anne Georgia Hunter , originally from Canada . He completed a business course from the University of Toronto via correspondence . In 1929 , he married Margaret Isabel Gunn . In 1946 , Vogel purchased a paint company , Cloverdale Paint . When he was elected to the legislature , he turned over the leadership of it to his son , Wink . Sons Richard ( Dick ) Vogel and Wink were also the owners of Mushroom Records . By 2005 Cloverdale Paint had 65 franchises across Canada . Another son , William ( Bill ) was a former mayor of Langley . Hunter Vogel died of respiratory failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 1990 , aged 86 .
Langley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada . The riding first appeared in the 1966 general election . The riding was created out of the Delta constituency in 1966 . Until the election of 1991 , it was considered a safe seat for Social Credit . Since then , the Liberals have won the seat by significant margins in six consecutive elections . It returned one MLA from 1966 to 1986 , two MLAs from 1986 to 1991 , and one MLA from 1991 to the present day .
Isabel Pearl Dawson ( October 13 , 1917 - April 9 , 1982 ) was a political figure in British Columbia , Canada . She represented Mackenzie in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1972 as a Social Credit member . She was born Isabel Pearl Saunders in Camrose , Alberta , the daughter of John David Saunders , and was educated there and in Princeton , British Columbia and Vancouver . She served in the Canadian Women 's Army Corps during World War II . She married Charles John Dawson . Dawson served in the provincial cabinet as a minister without portfolio . She was defeated by Don Lockstead when she ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1972 . After leaving politics , Dawson earned a degree in psychology from the University of Victoria and an MSc in gerontology from the University of Oregon . In 1974 , she moved to Victoria from Powell River . Dawson died of cancer at the age of 64 . The Isabel Dawson building at Camosun College is named in her honour .
Mackenzie was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia , centred on the community of Mackenzie . It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia . The district was abolished as the result of a redistribution under the Electoral Districts Act , 1990 .