Author: Elections British ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986
Author: Elections British ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Electoral Districts of British Columbia
Author: J. W. TrutchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Election districts
Languages : en
Pages :
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Electoral History of British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Legislative LibraryPublisher: Legislative Library
ISBN: 9780772647894
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
This volume is a supplement to the Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986, continuing the historical record until the end of 2001. It begins with by-elections that followed the 1986 General Election and concludes with the 2001 General Election and legislative changes up to the end of 2001. A comparison of the two volumes is instructive. There are more women Members in the last 15 years than in the previous 115 and even a casual reading of the list of elected candidates shows how the growing diversity of the Province has become part of its political life. The dominance of Scottish surnames found in early provincial elections has evolved into a list of names reflecting the present population of the Province. British Columbia has a long history of independent and varied political views and this continued in the period covered by this volume: candidates representing no less than 22 political parties were nominated in the 2001 General Election. Legislative change has led to the inclusion of three new sections not found in the Electoral History of British Columbia, 1981-1986. These list Initiative Petitions and Recall Petitions issued under the Recall and Initiative Act and regulations issued under the revised Election Act.
Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia
Author: R. Kenneth CartyPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841915
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia examines the political life of Canada's dynamic Pacific province. Each of the seventeen chapters, written by well-known experts, provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many faces of B.C. politics. Taken together they provide a clear and comprehensive overview of the dominant themes and issues that have been the distinguishing features of the province's political life.
British Columbia Executive Council Appointments, 1871-1986
Author: Judith Antonik BennettPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Canadian Election Timelines
Author: Bootleggers and Borders
Author: Stephen T. MoorePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803267843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930. Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values. Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight into not only the Canada-U.S. relationship but also the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.
The Oriental Question
Author: Patricia E. RoyPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Historical Association. Patricia Roy's latest book, The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British Columbians -- and many Canadians from outside the province -- were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on contemporary press and government reports and individual correspondence and memoirs, Roy shows how British Columbians consolidated a "white man's province" from 1914 to 1941 by securing a virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent legal restrictions on Asian competition in the major industries of lumber and fishing. While its emphasis is on political action and politicians, the book also examines the popular pressure for such practices and gives some attention to the reactions of those most affected: the province's Chinese and Japanese residents. It is a critical investigation of a troubling period in Canadian history.
Able to Lead
Author: Ravi MalhotraPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774865792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as “one of the most dangerous men in Canada.” In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically radicalized. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt trace Kingsley’s political journey from soapbox speaker in San Francisco to prominence in the Socialist Party of Canada. They examine Kingsley’s endeavours for justice against the Northern Pacific Railway, and how his life intersected with immigration law and free-speech rights. Able to Lead highlights Kingsley’s profound legacy for the twenty-first-century political left.
Wrestling with Democracy
Author: Dennis PilonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442662743
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.