19th Parliament of British Columbia

The 19th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1937 to 1941. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in June 1937. ^[1] The Liberal Party, led by Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, formed the government. ^[2] The Conservative Party formed the official opposition. ^[3]

Norman William Whittaker (Liberal) served as speaker for the assembly. ^[4]

Members of the 19th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1937.: ^[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
	Louis LeBourdais	Cariboo	Liberal	1937
	Leslie Harvey Eyres	Chilliwack	Conservative	1937
	Thomas King	Columbia	Liberal	1931, 1934
	Colin Cameron	Comox	CCF	1937
	Samuel Guthrie	Cowichan-Newcastle	CCF	1920, 1937
	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Cranbrook	Liberal	1928
	Arnold Joseph McGrath (1939)		Liberal	1939
	Leonard Alec Shepherd	Delta	CCF	1937
	Frank Porter Patterson	Dewdney	Conservative	1937
	David William Strachan (1938)		Liberal	1933, 1938
	Elmer Victor Finland	Esquimalt	Conservative	1937
	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Fernie	Labour	1920
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George	Liberal	1920, 1933
	Ezra Churchill Henniger	Grand Forks-Greenwood	Liberal	1920, 1937
	Macgregor Fullarton MacIntosh	The Islands	Conservative	1931, 1937
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops	Liberal	1933
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan	Liberal	1924, 1933
	George Matheson Murray	Lillooet	Liberal	1933
	John Melvin Bryan, Sr.	Mackenzie	Liberal	1924, 1933
	Manfred McGeer (1940)		Liberal	1940
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston	Liberal	1933
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster	Liberal	1924
	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	North Okanagan	Liberal	1916, 1933
	Dorothy Steeves	North Vancouver	CCF	1934
	Mark Matthew Connelly	Omineca	Liberal	1936
	Glen Everton Braden	Peace River	Liberal	1937
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	Prince Rupert	Liberal	1916
	Harry Johnston	Revelstoke	Liberal	1937
	Richard Ronald Burns	Rossland-Trail	Liberal	1933
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich	Liberal	1933
	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	Salmon Arm	Independent	1924
			Conservative
	Charles Herbert Percy Tupper	Similkameen	Liberal	1933
	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena	Liberal	1933
	Cecil Robert Bull	South Okanagan	Liberal	1937
	John Howard Forester	Vancouver-Burrard	Liberal	1936
	Helen Douglas Smith			1933
	Fred Crone	Vancouver Centre	Liberal	1937
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer			1933
	Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson (1939)		CCF	1939
	James Lyle Telford	Vancouver East	CCF	1937
			Independent
	Harold Edward Winch		CCF	1933
	Royal Lethington Maitland	Vancouver-Point Grey	Conservative	1928, 1937
	James Alexander Paton			1937
	George Moir Weir		Liberal	1933
	Herbert Anscomb	Victoria City	Conservative	1933
	John Hart		Liberal	1916, 1933
	Joseph Douglas Hunter		Conservative	1937
	William Thomas Straith		Liberal	1937
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale	Liberal	1928

Notes:

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	31
	Conservative	8
	Co-operative Commonwealth	7
	Independent	1
	Labour	1
Total		48
Government Majority		14

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Dewdney	David William Strachan	Liberal	May 20, 1938	F.P. Patterson died February 10, 1938
Vancouver Centre	Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson	CCF	May 1, 1939	F. Crone died April 3, 1939
Cranbrook	Arnold Joseph McGrath	Liberal	October 26, 1939	E.M. MacPherson resigned September 27, 1939; named to federal Board of Transport Commissioners
Mackenzie	Manfred McGeer	Liberal	September 21, 1940	J.M. Bryan died May 5, 1940

Notes:

Other changes

• Rolf Wallgren Bruhn joins the Conservatives in 1938. ^[5]
• James Lyle Telford expelled from the CCF on June 26, 1939, and becomes an independent. ^[6]

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. "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.
6. Dyer, James (1939-06-27). "Harold Winch named C.C.F. House Leader". The Vancouver Sun. p. 1.