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Ymir 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 Ymir, a village east of Trail, B.C. and south of Nelson, B.C. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the election of 1903 and lasted only until 1912, after which the area was represented by Nelson riding.
For other current and historical electoral districts in the Kootenay region, please see Kootenay (electoral districts).
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Note: Winners of each election are inbold.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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| Liberal | Alfred Parr 1 | 323 | 40.07% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | Harry Wright | 483 | 59.93% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 806 | 100.00% | ||||
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| 1 Parr may have been a Labour candidate although Gosnell labels him a Liberal; he may have campaigned as both. | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | John Houston | 147 | 20.68% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | John Frederick Hume | 239 | 33.61% | unknown | ||
| Conservative | James Hargrave Schofield | 325 | 45.71% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 711 | 100.00% | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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| Socialist | Alexander M. Oliver | 366 | 34.37% | – | unknown | |
| Conservative | James Hargrave Schofield | 699 | 65.63% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 1,065 | 100.00% | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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| Socialist | Richard Parmater Pettipiece | 261 | 20.31% | – | unknown | |
| Conservative | James Hargrave Schofield | 1,024 | 79.69% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 1,285 | 100.00% | ||||
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Following the 1912 election most of the area of the Ymir riding was incorporated into the new riding of Nelson.
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Stewart Creek is a small creek in the Regional District of Central Kootenay in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. The creek is a tributary of the Salmo River and has its source in the Selkirk Mountains close to the town of Ymir. The name was adopted in 1930. Its source is the peaks of Round Mountain, the same source as that of Quartz Creek and is approximately 2 km north of Ymir. There is a rest area featuring a small waterfall with a picnic area on Highway 6 at Stewart Creek.
Hall Creek is a creek in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of the Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia, Canada. The creek is a tributary of the Salmo River and flows east into the river in the community of Hall, a few kilometres north of the town of Ymir and a few kilometres south of Nelson. The creek and the community of Hall were named for the Osner and Winslow Hall; brothers from Colville, Washington. The brothers were pioneers in the silver rush occurring in the kootenays in the late 1880s and early 1890s In 1886, the brothers led the expedition to Toad Mountain which led to the creation of the Silver King mine, which in turn gave rise to the city of Nelson.