10th Parliament of British Columbia

The 10th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1903 to 1906. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1903. ^[1] This election was the first in British Columbia to be contested by competing political parties. The British Columbia Conservative Party led by Richard McBride, having won the majority of seats, formed the government. ^[2]

Charles Edward Pooley served as speaker. ^[3]

Members of the 10th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1903.: ^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected
	William Wallace Burns McInnes	Alberni	Liberal	1900
	William Manson (1905)		Conservative	1905
	Henry Esson Young	Atlin	Conservative	1903
	Harry Jones	Cariboo	Liberal	1903
	James Murphy			1903
	Charles William Munro	Chilliwhack	Liberal	1898
	Wilmer Cleveland Wells	Columbia	Liberal	1899
	Robert Grant	Comox	Conservative	1903
	John Newell Evans	Cowichan	Liberal	1903
	James Horace King	Cranbrook	Liberal	1903
	John Oliver	Delta	Liberal	1900
	Richard McBride	Dewdney	Conservative	1898
	Charles Edward Pooley	Esquimalt	Conservative	1882
	William Roderick Ross	Fernie	Conservative	1903
	George Arthur Fraser	Grand Forks	Conservative	1903
	John Robert Brown	Greenwood	Liberal	1903
	Thomas Wilson Paterson	The Islands	Liberal	1902
	Frederick John Fulton	Kamloops	Conservative	1900
	Robert Francis Green	Kaslo	Conservative	1898
	Archibald McDonald	Lillooet	Conservative	1903
	James Hurst Hawthornthwaite	Nanaimo City	Socialist	1901
	John Houston	Nelson City	Conservative	1900
	Parker Williams	Newcastle	Socialist	1903
	Thomas Gifford	New Westminster City	Conservative	1901
	Price Ellison	Okanagan	Conservative	1898
	Thomas Taylor	Revelstoke	Conservative	1900
	Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton	Richmond	Conservative	1890, [a] 1903
	James Alexander MacDonald	Rossland City	Liberal	1903
	Henry Ernest Tanner	Saanich	Liberal	1903
	Lytton Wilmot Shatford	Similkameen	Conservative	1903
	Charles William Digby Clifford	Skeena	Conservative	1898
	William Davidson	Slocan	Labour [nb 1]	1903
	William John Bowser	Vancouver City	Conservative	1903
	James Ford Garden			1900
	Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan			1903
	Robert Garnett Tatlow			1900
	Charles Wilson			1882, [b] 1903
	William George Cameron	Victoria City	Liberal	1903
	Richard Low Drury			1903
	Richard Hall			1898
	James Dugald McNiven			1903
	Stuart Alexander Henderson	Yale	Liberal	1903
	Harry Wright	Ymir	Conservative	1903

Notes:

1. Not a provincial party. The riding had its own local autonomous Labour party.

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Conservative	22
	Liberal	17
	Socialist	2
	Labour	1
Total		42
Government Majority		2

By-elections

By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time: ^[1]

• Charles Wilson, Attorney General, ^[4] elected November 21, 1903
• Frederick John Fulton, President of Executive Council, ^[5] acclaimed June 1, 1904

By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons: ^[1]

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Lillooet	Archibald McDonald	Conservative	August 16, 1904	election of A. McDonald declared null and void by act of legislature
Alberni	William Manson	Conservative	July 22, 1905	W.W.B. McInnes named commissioner of the Yukon May 20, 1905

Notes

1. Vancouver City
2. Cariboo

References

1. "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
2. "Premiers of British Columbia 1871-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
3. "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
4. Gosnell, R. Edward (1906). A history of British Columbia. p. 315. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
5. "Fulton, Frederick John". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 2011-08-29.