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Alexander Edmund Batson Davie

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ran the government on a day-to-day basis, though Davie attempted to direct policy in his letters to Robson. He returned in May 1888, but his health was in a poor state, and he ultimately died in office the following August.
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in 1873, he was the first person to receive his entire law education in British Columbia. Davie was first elected to the provincial
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in favour of provincial rights pleading that the province had a right to regulate its liquor sales.
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as independent opposition candidate. He lost his seat in 1877 after a brief stint in the
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asked Davie to become premier but he fell ill within months and left for
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Davie was married December 3, 1874, to Constance Langford Skinner of
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Mackintosh, Charles Herbert; Gemmili, John Alexander (1887).
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Index


Premier of British Columbia
Victoria
Hugh Nelson
William Smithe
John Robson
MLA
Cariboo
George Anthony Walkem
John Evans
Joseph Hunter
George Cowan
MLA
Lillooet
Edward Allen
William Brown
Alfred Wellington Smith
Somerset
England
Victoria
British Columbia
QC
premier of British Columbia
Called to the bar
legislature
Cariboo
cabinet
Premier
Andrew Charles Elliott
Lillooet

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