28th Parliament of British Columbia

The 28th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1967 to 1969. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in September 1966. ^[1] The Social Credit Party led by W. A. C. Bennett formed the government. ^[2] The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Robert Strachan formed the official opposition. ^[3]

William Harvey Murray served as speaker for the assembly. ^[4]

Members of the 28th General Assembly

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1966: ^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected
	Howard Richmond McDiarmid	Alberni	Social Credit	1966
	Frank Arthur Calder	Atlin	NDP	1949, 1960
	Francis Xavier Richter	Boundary-Similkameen	Social Credit	1953
	Gordon Dowding	Burnaby-Edmonds	NDP	1956
	Eileen Dailly	Burnaby North	NDP	1966
	Fred Vulliamy	Burnaby-Willingdon	NDP	1966
	James Gibson Lorimer (1969)		NDP	1969
	William Collins Speare	Cariboo	Social Credit	1957
	Robert William Bonner (1966)		Social Credit	1952, [a] 1966
	William Kenneth Kiernan	Chilliwack	Social Credit	1952
	James Roland Chabot	Columbia River	Social Credit	1963
	Daniel Robert John Campbell	Comox	Social Credit	1956
	David Barrett	Coquitlam	NDP	1960
	Robert Martin Strachan	Cowichan-Malahat	NDP	1952
	Robert Wenman	Delta	Social Credit	1966
	George Mussallem	Dewdney	Social Credit	1966
	Herbert Joseph Bruch	Esquimalt	Social Credit	1953
	Ray Gillis Williston	Fort George	Social Credit	1953
	Philip Arthur Gaglardi	Kamloops	Social Credit	1952
	Leo Thomas Nimsick	Kootenay	NDP	1949
	Hunter Bertram Vogel	Langley	Social Credit	1963
	Isabel Dawson	Mackenzie	Social Credit	1966
	David Daniel Stupich	Nanaimo	NDP	1963
	Wesley Drewett Black	Nelson-Creston	Social Credit	1952
	John McRae (Rae) Eddie	New Westminster	NDP	1952
	Patricia Jordan	North Okanagan	Social Credit	1966
	Dean Edward Smith	North Peace River	Social Credit	1966
	Raymond Joseph Perrault	North Vancouver-Capilano	Liberal	1960
	David Maurice Brousson (1968)		Liberal	1968
	Barrie Aird Clark	North Vancouver-Seymour	Liberal	1966
	Alan Brock MacFarlane	Oak Bay	Liberal	1960
	Allan Leslie Cox (1968)		Liberal	1968
	Cyril Morley Shelford	Omineca	Social Credit	1952
	William Harvey Murray	Prince Rupert	Social Credit	1956
	Randolph Harding	Revelstoke-Slocan	NDP	1945
	William Stewart King (1968)		NDP	1968
	Ernest A. LeCours	Richmond	Social Credit	1963
	Donald Leslie Brothers	Rossland-Trail	Social Credit	1958
	John Douglas Tidball Tisdalle	Saanich and the Islands	Social Credit	1953
	Willis Franklin Jefcoat	Shuswap	Social Credit	1960
	Dudley George Little	Skeena	Social Credit	1960
	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan	Social Credit	1941, [b] 1949
	Donald McGray Phillips	South Peace River	Social Credit	1966
	Ernest Hall	Surrey	NDP	1966
	Thomas Rodney Berger	Vancouver-Burrard	NDP	1966
	Raymond Parkinson			1966
	Harold Peter (Herb) Capozzi	Vancouver Centre	Social Credit	1966
	Evan Maurice Wolfe			1966
	Alexander Barrett MacDonald	Vancouver East	NDP	1960
	Robert Arthur Williams			1966
	Grace Mary McCarthy	Vancouver-Little Mountain	Social Credit	1966
	Leslie Raymond Peterson			1955
	Garde Basil Gardom	Vancouver-Point Grey	Liberal	1966
	Patrick Lucey McGeer			1962
	Thomas Audley Bate	Vancouver South	Social Credit	1953 [c] , 1966
	Ralph Raymond Loffmark			1963
	Norman Levi (1968)		NDP	1968
	William Neelands Chant	Victoria	Social Credit	1953
	Waldo McTavish Skillings			1960
	Louis Allan Williams	West Vancouver-Howe Sound	Liberal	1966
	William Leonard Hartley	Yale-Lillooet	NDP	1963

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Social Credit	33
	New Democratic	16
	Liberal	6
Total		55
Government Majority		11

By-elections

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Cariboo	Robert William Bonner	Social Credit	November 28, 1966	W.C. Speare resigned to provide seat for R.W. Bonner
Vancouver South	Norman Levi	NDP	May 21, 1968	death of T.A. Bate September 21, 1967
North Vancouver-Capilano	David Maurice Brousson	Liberal	July 15, 1968	R.J. Perrault resigned June 5, 1968, to contest federal seat
Oak Bay	Allan Leslie Cox	Liberal	July 15, 1968	A.B. MacFarlane resigned April 25, 1968, for "personal reasons"; named to B.C. Supreme Court April 26, 1968
Revelstoke-Slocan	William Stewart King	NDP	July 15, 1968	R. Harding resigned June 5, 1968, to contest federal seat
Burnaby-Willingdon	James Gibson Lorimer	NDP	January 13, 1969	death of F.J. Vulliamy October 20, 1968

Other changes

• Cariboo (res. Robert Bonner 1969) ^[5]

Notes

1. Columbia
2. First elected as a Conservative
3. Vancouver-Point Grey

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, July 22, 1969