12th Parliament of British Columbia

The 12th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1910 to 1912. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in November 1909.^[1] The British Columbia Conservative Party led by Richard McBride formed the government.^[2]

David McEwen Eberts served as speaker.^[3]

Members of the 12th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1909.:^[1]

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected
	Harlan Carey Brewster	Alberni	Liberal	1907
	Henry Esson Young	Atlin	Conservative	1903
	Michael Callanan	Cariboo	Conservative	1909
	John Anderson Fraser			1909
	Samuel Arthur Cawley	Chilliwhack	Conservative	1909
	Henry George Parson	Columbia	Conservative	1907
	Michael Manson	Comox	Conservative	1909
	William Henry Hayward	Cowichan	Conservative	1900,[a] 1907
	Thomas Donald Caven	Cranbrook	Conservative	1909
	Francis James Anderson MacKenzie	Delta	Conservative	1909
	William J. Manson	Dewdney	Conservative	1907
	John Jardine	Esquimalt	Liberal	1907
			Conservative
	William Roderick Ross	Fernie	Conservative	1903
	Ernest Miller	Grand Forks	Conservative	1909
	John Robert Jackson	Greenwood	Conservative	1909
	Albert Edward McPhillips	The Islands	Conservative	1898,[b] 1907
	James Pearson Shaw	Kamloops	Conservative	1909
	Neil Franklin MacKay	Kaslo	Conservative	1907
	Archibald McDonald	Lillooet	Conservative	1903, 1909
	James Hurst Hawthornthwaite	Nanaimo City	Socialist	1901
	Harry Wright	Nelson City	Conservative	1903,[c] 1909
	Parker Williams	Newcastle	Socialist	1903
	Thomas Gifford	New Westminster City	Conservative	1901
	Price Ellison	Okanagan	Conservative	1898
	Thomas Taylor	Revelstoke	Conservative	1900
	Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton	Richmond	Conservative	1890,[d] 1903
	William Robert Braden	Rossland City	Conservative	1909
	David McEwen Eberts	Saanich	Conservative	1890,[e] 1907
	Lytton Wilmot Shatford	Similkameen	Conservative	1903
	William Manson	Skeena	Conservative	1905,[f] 1909
	William Hunter	Slocan	Conservative	1907
	William John Bowser	Vancouver City	Conservative	1903
	Alexander Henry Boswell MacGowan			1903
	George Albert McGuire			1907
	Charles Edward Tisdall			1898, 1909
	Henry Holgate Watson			1909
	Henry Frederick William Behnsen	Victoria City	Conservative	1907
	Frederick Davey			1907
	Richard McBride[nb 1]			1898
	Henry Broughton Thomson			1907
	Richard McBride[nb 1]	Yale	Conservative	1898
	Alexander Lucas (1910)		Conservative	1910
	James Hargrave Schofield	Ymir	Conservative	1907

Notes:

1. Elected in both Yale and Victoria; choosing to sit for Victoria

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Conservative	38
	Liberal	2
	Socialist	2
Total		42
Government Majority		34

By-elections

By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:^[1]

• William Roderick Ross, Minister of Lands,^[4] elected November 26, 1910

By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons:^[1]

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Yale	Alexander Lucas	Conservative	December 12, 1910[nb 1]	R. McBride resigned seat; elected in both Victoria City and Yale

Notes:

1. Acclaimed

Other changes

• Liberal John Jardine crossed the floor to join the Conservatives in 1911.^[1][5]

Notes

1. Esquimalt
2. Victoria City
3. Ymir
4. Vancouver City
5. Victoria
6. Alberni