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