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Greenwood was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was located in there Boundary Country west of Grand Forks around the city of Greenwood. It first appeared on the hustings in the large redistribution prior to the 1903 election. For the 1924 election it was merged with the Grand Forks riding to form Grand Forks-Greenwood.
For other historical and current provincial electoral districts in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts).
When the Greenwood riding was formed the Boundary and Slocan mining districts were booming and Greenwood was not a city in name only (as it is today, proudly retaining the city status as official vestige of its wealthy past). Like other ridings in the West Kootenay created in advance of the 1903 election out of the West Kootenay South, during the glory days of the Kootenay and Boundary silver and galena booms. Slocan, Kaslo, Rossland, Grand Forks, Nelson City, Ymir and other ridings were also created at this time out of the former West Kootenay South.
The need for extra ridings ended when the mining era did, and so as the population of Greenwood and neighbouring towns dwindled the Greenwood riding made its last appearance in the 1924 election and was merged with Grand Forks riding into Grand Forks-Greenwood.
Grand Forks-Greenwood remained on the hustings until 1966 when even lower populations resulted in a merger with the valley of the Similkameen river, also a mining district in decline and represented by Similkameen, which was combined with the smelter and railway towns of the Grand Forks-Greenwood area and the southern end of the Okanagana to form the new riding of Boundary-Similkameen.
For other historical and current electoral districts in the West Kootenay region, see List of electoral districts in the Kootenays.
| Population, 1901 | ||
| Population change, 1901–1921 | Population Grand Forks-Greenwood 1926-1966 | Population Boundary-Similkameen 1966-1986 |
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Note: Winners in each election are inbold.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Robert Brown 1 | 238 | 36.73% | unknown | ||
| Socialist | Robert Low Drury | 229 | 35.34% | – | unknown | |
| Conservative | James Ernest Spankie | 181 | 27.93% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 648 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| The Vancouver Province newspaper gave 380, 332, and 265 respectively. | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | Edgar William Dynes | 176 | 30.19% | – | unknown | |
| Liberal | George Ratcliffe Naden | 217 | 37.22% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Edward George Warren | 190 | 32.59% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 583 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | George Heatherton | 204 | 33.01% | – | unknown | |
| Conservative | John Robert Jackson | 260 | 42.07% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Alexander MacDonald | 154 | 24.92% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 618 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist | George Heatherton | 102 | 21.89% | – | unknown | |
| Conservative | John Robert Jackson | 364 | 78.11% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 466 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Robert Jackson | 205 | 29.45% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | John Duncan MacLean | 491 | 70.55% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 696 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 1920 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | John Duncan MacLean | 392 | 49.06 | |||||
| Conservative | George Bell | 292 | 36.55 | |||||
| Independent Farmer | George Henry Pitman | 115 | 14.39 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 799 | 100.00 | ||||||
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Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan". The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Kaslo and Slocan, and lasted until the 1963 election.
Columbia River was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1986. The riding's predecessor, which was named Columbia, appeared on the hustings from 1903 to 1963. The successor riding in this region is the current Columbia River-Revelstoke riding.
Trail was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia located in the West Kootenay region. It is named after the town of Trail, B.C. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1916. Its predecessor riding was Rossland City (1903–1912) and from 1924 it was succeeded by the riding of Rossland-Trail.
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Similkameen was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia formed around the historic mining district of the same name. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903. After the 1963 election, which was the occasion of this riding's last appearance, this electoral district was combined with Grand Forks-Greenwood to form Boundary-Similkameen for the 1966 election.
The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west of the West Kootenay. It is often included in descriptions of both of those regions but historically has been considered a separate region. Originally inclusive of the South Okanagan towns of Osoyoos and Oliver, today the term continues in use to refer to the valleys of the Kettle, West Kettle, and Granby Rivers and of Boundary and Rock Creeks and that of Christina Lake and of their various tributaries, all draining the south slope of the Monashee Mountains. The term Boundary District as well as the term Boundary Country can both refer to the local mining division of the British Columbia Ministry of Mines, Energy and Petroleum Resources.