Cariboo (electoral district)

:"For the region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, see Cariboo. For the provincial electoral district of the same name, see Cariboo (provincial electoral district).

Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1892.

This riding was first created as Cariboo District following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian Confederation in 1871. The name was changed to "Cariboo" in 1872, and existed in this form until it was abolished in 1892 when it was amalgamated into the new riding of Yale—Cariboo. In 1914, Yale—Cariboo was redistributed and Yale and Cariboo were separate ridings once again, though with smaller areas than before. The Cariboo riding lasted until 1966. The succession of ridings for the Cariboo area since then has been:

*Kamloops—Cariboo)
*Cariboo—Chilcotin (1976—2003)
*Cariboo—Prince George (2003 - )
*Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo (2004 - )

The Chilcotin region of the riding, west of the Fraser River, was from 1966 to 1976 part of the Coast Chilcotin riding.

The original form of the riding was the whole of the Cariboo plateau and both Cariboo and Lillooet Land Districts. Its southern boundary was on the northern edge of the Vancouver riding, and later the North Vancouver riding, with near-coastal localities such as Pemberton, Squamish, Britannia Beach and Port Douglas all politically part of "Cariboo".

Cariboo was also a provincial electoral district. It was a three-member riding whose first representatives included George Anthony Boomer Walkem, later 3rd and 5th holder of the office of Premier of British Columbia. It was one of the province's first twelve electoral constituencies.

Election results

"Note: Winners in each election are in" bold
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Liberal-Conservative
Joshua Spencer Thompson
align="right"|acclaimed
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- bgcolor="white"!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|n/a!align="right"
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Liberal-Conservative
Joshua Spencer Thompson
align="right"|Accl.
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Liberal-Conservative
James Reid
align="right"|179
align="right"|42.32%
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Unknown
Monroe ²
align="right"|104
align="right"|24.59%
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Unknown
Ball ²
align="right"|78
align="right"|18.44%
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Unknown
Archibald Greig
align="right"|62
align="right"|14.66%
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-!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|423!align="right"
!align="right"
-!align="left" colspan=7|¹ By-Election: On Mr. Thompson'death, December 20, 1880.
-!align="left" colspan=7|² Neither Ball's nor Monroe's first names are given in the historical records of this riding.

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Liberal-Conservative
James Reid
align="right"|Accl.
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-!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|n/a!align="right"
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Conservative
Frank Stillman Barnard ⁴
align="right"|117
align="right"|39.26%
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Independent
R. McLeese
align="right"|95
align="right"|31.88%
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Independent
Rogers ⁵
align="right"|86
align="right"|28.86%
align="right"
-!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|298!align="right"
!align="right"
-!align="left" colspan=7|³ By-Election: On Mr. Reid's appointment to the Senate.
-!align="left" colspan=7|⁴ Son of Frank (Francis Jones) Barnard of Barnard's Express, premier freight company on the Cariboo Wagon Road. Francis Stillman Barnard was later 10th Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) and was a Knight by the time of his appointment.
-!align="left" colspan=7|⁵ Rogers' first name does not appear in the historical records or this riding.

Under the Representation Act of 1892, the constituencies of Yale and Cariboo were united to form Yale—Cariboo. In 1914 that riding was broken up and the Yale and Cariboo riding-names were restored, although the new constituencies were considerably smaller than before. The restored Yale riding included the Boundary Country around Grand Forks and Greenwood, but the Kootenay was now a separate riding and the town of Yale itself was not in the restored Yale riding, but in the new riding of Westminster District. The first election using the new boundaries was in 1917. "Government" and "Opposition" were used during the wartime campaign to designate the governing Conservatives vs the Opposition Liberals.

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
William Irvine
align="right"|5,773
align="right"|40.70%
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Liberal
James Gray Turgeon
align="right"|4,841
align="right"|34.13%
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A major redistribution in 1952 took away the southern half of the Cariboo district, with a southern boundary at 52 degrees 30 minutes north, just excluding Williams Lake and the south bank of Quesnel Lake. The rest of the riding extended to the Little Rancheria River and the border with Yukon and the Northwest Territories, therefore including the Omineca, Prince George and Peace River districts.
Social Credit
Bert Leboe
align="right"|5,562
align="right"|36.99%
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Liberal
George Matheson Murray
align="right"|5,160
align="right"|34.32%
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Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.
WIlliam Irvine
align="right"|4,314
align="right"|28.69%
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-!align="left" colspan=3|Total!align="right"|15,036!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"
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The Cariboo electoral district was abolished in 1966. Successor ridings were:

*Coast Chilcotin (1966 - 1976)
*Kamloops—Cariboo (1966 - 1976)
*Prince George—Peace River (1966 - 1976)
*Skeena (1914 - 2003)

See also

* List of Canadian federal electoral districts
* Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

Riding history from the] Library of Parliament:
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=118 (1872 - 1892)
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=119 (1914 - 1966)

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