Talk:William Wasbrough Foster

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 05:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy of political carreer/moontaineering

"President of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, provincial Member of the Legislative Assemby and Minister of Public Works prior to the Great War. Foster was an avid mountaineer, and was on the first expeditions to climb Mount Robson and Canada's highest peak, Mount Robson. "

I will edit out the double reference to Mount Robson. I have taken out the refrence to Mount Robson being the highest peak in Canada as its article says otherwise.

I have looked through the provincial election records "before the Great War" back to the British Columbia general election, 1890 and I see no Foster elected to the BC Legislature. If someone has the reference materials, could this be checked? According to Lindsay Elms, he was Deputy Minister of Public works and was elected to the BC Legislature in 1913. However his name does not appear in the BC election results for that year. --KenWalker | Talk 08:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Foster was elected in a 1913 by-election, not a general election, which is why it's not listed in the general election results. The Deputy Minister of Public Works reference can be found in the Who's Who listed in the references section (available at VPL). The second Mount Robson should've read Mount Logan, and the Lindsay Elms reference is an online source for that. Bobanny 17:40, 27 October 2006 (UTC)