Legislative Council of British Columbia

Legislative Council of British Columbia
Type
Type
History
Founded1867 (1867)
Disbanded1871 (1871)
Preceded byLegislative Assembly of Vancouver Island
Colonial Assembly of British Columbia
Succeeded byLegislative Assembly of British Columbia
Meeting place
Legislative Hall
A group of members of the Legislative Council, circa 1867

The Legislative Council of British Columbia was created in 1867 for the governor of the "new" United Colony of British Columbia (which was the merger of the old colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia). The merged colony had not theretofore had a responsible government, and its executive power was only its governor, who at the time of its Legislative Assembly's founding was Frederick Seymour.

There were three groups of members: five senior officials of the colony who constituted its executive council; nine magistrates (some of whom had been elevated to that post to please Whitehall); and nine elected members (who represented two seats in Victoria, one in Greater Victoria or "Victoria District", New Westminster, Columbia River and Kootenay, Nanaimo, Yale and Lytton, Lillooet, and Cariboo).


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