18th Parliament of British Columbia

The 18th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1934 to 1937. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in November 1933. ^[1] The Liberal Party, led by Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, formed the government. ^[2] The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) formed the official opposition. ^[3]

Henry George Thomas Perry served as speaker for the assembly. ^[4]

Members of the 18th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1933: ^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected
	George Sharratt Pearson	Alberni-Nanaimo	Liberal	1928
	William James Asselstine	Atlin	Liberal	1933
	Ernest Edward Winch	Burnaby	CCF	1933
	Donald Morrison MacKay [a]	Cariboo	Liberal	1933
	Edward Dodsley Barrow	Chilliwack	Liberal	1916, 1933
	William Henry Sutherland	Columbia-Revelstoke	Liberal	1916
	Thomas King (1934)		Liberal	1931, 1934
	Laurence Arnold Hanna	Comox	Liberal	1928
	Hugh George Egioke Savage	Cowichan-Newcastle	Oxford Group Movement	1933
	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Cranbrook	Liberal	1928
	Robert Swailes	Delta	CCF [b]	1933
			Social Constructives
	David William Strachan	Dewdney	Liberal	1933
	Robert Henry Pooley	Esquimalt	Unionist	1912
	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Fernie	Independent Labour Party	1920
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George	Liberal	1920, 1933
	Dougald MacPherson	Grand Forks-Greenwood	Liberal	1925, 1933
	Alexander McDonald	The Islands	Liberal	1933
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops	Liberal	1933
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan	Liberal	1924, 1933
	George Matheson Murray	Lillooet	Liberal	1933
	Ernest Bakewell	Mackenzie	CCF [b]	1933
			Social Constructives
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston	Liberal	1933
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster	Liberal	1924
	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	North Okanagan	Liberal	1916, 1933
	Harley Christian Erskine Anderson	North Vancouver	CCF	1933
	Dorothy Steeves (1934)		CCF	1934
	Alexander Malcolm Manson	Omineca	Liberal	1916
	Mark Matthew Connelly (1936)		Liberal	1936
	Clive Montgomery Francis Planta	Peace River	NPIG	1933
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	Prince Rupert	Liberal	1916
	Richard Ronald Burns	Rossland-Trail	Liberal	1933
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich	Liberal	1933
	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	Salmon Arm	NPIG	1924
	Charles Herbert Percy Tupper	Similkameen	Liberal	1933
	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena	Liberal	1933
	Joseph Allen Harris	South Okanagan	Liberal	1933
	Gerald Grattan McGeer	Vancouver-Burrard	Liberal	1916, [c] 1933
	Helen Douglas Smith			1933
	John Howard Forester (1936)			1936
	Gordon McGregor Sloan [d]	Vancouver Centre	Liberal	1933
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer			1933
	John Price	Vancouver East	CCF	1933
	Harold Edward Winch			1933
	Stanley Stewart McKeen	Vancouver-Point Grey	Liberal	1933
	George Moir Weir			1933
	Robert Wilkinson			1933
	Herbert Anscomb	Victoria City	Independent	1933
	Robert Connell		CCF [b]	1933
			Social Constructives
	John Hart		Liberal	1916, 1933
	Byron Ingemar Johnson			1933
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale	Liberal	1928

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	34
	Co-operative Commonwealth	7
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	2
	Independent	2
	Unionist	1
	Independent Labour	1
Total		47
Government Majority		21

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Columbia	Thomas King [e]	Liberal	March 8, 1934	Re-establishment of Columbia electoral district
North Vancouver	Dorothy Steeves	CCF	July 14, 1934	H.C.E. Anderson died April 17, 1934
Omineca	Mark Matthew Connelly	Liberal	June 22, 1936	A.M. Manson resigned September 14, 1935, to contest federal election
Vancouver-Burrard	John Howard Forester	Liberal	September 1, 1936	G.G. McGeer resigned October 1, 1935, to contest federal election

Notes

1. appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1937 ^[5]
2. Left the CCF in August 1936 to create the British Columbia Social Constructive Party.
3. Richmond
4. appointed to Court of Appeal on April 5, 1937 ^[6]
5. elected by acclaimation

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 2011-09-23.
3. "Leaders of the Opposition in British Columbia 1903-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
4. "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia 1872-" (PDF). BC Legislature. Retrieved 2011-09-23.
5. Vancouver Sun, April 13, 1937
6. "A checklist of members of the Legislature of British Columbia" (PDF). Legislative Library of British Columbia. 2013-05-16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-27. Retrieved 2022-03-26.