page_title: Richard McBride
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Richard McBride / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque from Richard McBride Elementary about the former premier.
context_page_description: Sir Richard McBride, KCMG KC was a British Columbia politician and is often considered the founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. McBride was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1898 election, and served in the cabinet of James Dunsmuir from 1900 to 1901. McBride believed that the province's system of non-party government was unstable and hindered development. After the lieutenant-governor appointed him the 16th premier in June 1903 and McBride announced that his government was a Conservative Party administration and would contest the upcoming election along party lines. On October 3, 1903, McBride's party, the British Columbia Conservative Party won the first provincial election to be fought along party lines with a two-seat majority. McBride was also the first native-born Premier in British Columbia's history.
  Richard McBride is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia.
context_section_description: The small community of McBride, British Columbia was named after this premier during the time he was in office. Also named for the premier, the McBride River in northern British Columbia is a major tributary of the Stikine.
  Richard McBride Elementary School in New Westminster was built in 1912 and replaced the Sapperton School nearby, after burning down it was rebuilt as the current school being completed in 1929. Sir Richard McBride Elementary School in Vancouver was named after him in 1911 during his tenure as Premier as well as McBride Park in Kitsilano on July 26, 1911. (During World War I the park was used for the cultivation of vegetables.) Mount McBride, a peak in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, is also named after the premier. 
  Also named for him is McBride Boulevard in New Westminster which is the western ramp for the Pattullo Bridge.
  Premier McBride was very anti-immigration and had strong prejudices against people descended from Asia, views which he campaigned on widely. McBride was strongly in favour of restricting immigration, expelling people of Asian descent and sought to build a "White man's province."
  McBride echoed these sentiments in 1909: "We stand for a white British Columbia, a white land and a white empire."
caption: Plaque from Richard McBride Elementary about the former premier
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