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120: 166:'s intent that there be a more democratic presence in the council), and nine elected members. The electoral members represented two seats in Victoria, one in Greater Victoria ("Victoria District"), New Westminster, Columbia River and Kootenay, Nanaimo, Yale and Lytton, Lillooet, and Cariboo. 338:
Elected members were actually appointed by the governor and not mandated by their election, but appointed "in deference to the wishes of the people". George Wallace, the representative for Yale and Lytton, resigned his seat before the first session and a by-election was held which selected
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as his replacement. All members, including elected ones, had the right to use "the Honourable" before their name.
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There were three groups of members: five senior officials of the colony, who also constituted its
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by G.P.V. Akrigg and Helen B. Akrigg, Discovery Press, Vancouver, 1977 (pp. 340–341)
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The council was abolished in 1871 when British Columbia became a province.
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At the time of the council's creation, its members were:
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A group of members of the Legislative Council, circa 1867
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British Columbia Chronicle 1847-1871: Gold and Colonists
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Governor-in-Council of the Colony of British Columbia
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Index

unicameral house
Governor-in-Council of the Colony of British Columbia
Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island
Colonial Assembly of British Columbia
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

governor
United Colony of British Columbia
colonies of Vancouver Island
British Columbia
responsible government
Frederick Seymour
executive council
Whitehall
Executive council
Arthur N. Birch
H.P.P. Crease
W.A.G. Young
Joseph W. Trutch
Wymond Ogilvy Hamley
Thomas L. Wood
Henry Maynard Ball
Chartres Brew
C.F. Cornwall
W.G. Cox
W.J. Macdonald
C.S. Nicol
Peter O'Reilly
E.H. Sanders
Amor de Cosmos

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