Yale—Cariboo

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Yale—Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1917.

This riding was created in 1896 by combining the former Yale and Cariboo ridings. A redistribution in 1903 split off the eastern portion of the riding as the Kootenay riding from the Yale portion of Yale—Cariboo. It was abolished in 1914 and the Yale riding name restored, although on a smaller scale and actually without the town of Yale in the riding (it was in Fraser Valley), and also excluding Salmon Arm and Kamloops, which were part of the Cariboo portion of Yale—Cariboo, were re-assigned to the Cariboo riding.

1 Major communities in the riding
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Major communities in the riding

Thompson:

Shuswap:

Salmon Arm
Falkland

Okanagan:

Boundary Country:

The following communities were split off from Yale—Cariboo in the redistribution of 1903, to form the new riding of Kootenay.

Nicola-Similkameen:

Keremeos
Hedley
Princeton
Merritt
Douglas Lake
Tulameen
Coalmont (Granite City)
Aspen Grove

[edit] Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

[edit] Election results

Note: Winners or each election are in bold

Canadian federal election, 1896: Yale—Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	H. Bostock ¹	1,824	55.22%
	Conservative	J.A. Mara	1,479	44.78%
Total			3,303
¹ Senator, 1904-1930, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Minister of Public Works 1921-1922, Speaker of the Senate 1922-1930.

Canadian federal election, 1900: Yale—Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wm. A. Galliher	3,112	37.28%
	Labour	Chris Foley	2,652	31.77%
	Conservative	John McKane	2,583	30.95%
Total			8,347

Canadian federal election, 1904: Yale—Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ross Duncan	2,019	46.35%
	Conservative	Martin Burrell	1,858	42.65%
	Unknown	Ernest Mills	479	11.00%
Total			4,356

Canadian federal election, 1908: Yale—Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Burrell	3,413	53.14%
	Liberal	Ross Duncan	2,520	39.23%
	Unknown	Charles Bunting	490	7.63%
Total			6,423

Canadian federal election, 1911: Yale—Cariboo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Burrell	3,851	63.56%
	Liberal	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	1,962	32.38%
	Socialist	James Foulds Johnson	246	4.06%
Total			6,059	100.00%

Byelection November 4, 1911 Yale—Cariboo ²
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Burrell	Accl.
Total
² By-Election: On Mr. Burrell being appointed Minister of Agriculture, October 10, 1911.

Yale—Cariboo was abolished in advance of the 1917 election, with the original riding names of Cariboo and Yale being re-established but with new boundaries from before.