22nd Parliament of British Columbia

The 22nd Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1950 to 1952. The members were elected in the [1949 British Columbia general election|British Columbia (electoral district)|Columbia general election] held in June 1949. From 1950 to 1952, the Liberals and Conservatives formed a coalition government led by Byron Ingemar "Boss" Johnson, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by Harold Winch formed the Official Opposition. On January 19, 1952, the coalition split and the Liberals formed a single-party minority government, while the Conservatives moved to the opposition benches and took the role of Official Opposition.
Nancy Hodges served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

Members of the 22nd Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1949:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term	James Mowat	Alberni	Independent	1941	3rd term	Coalition	Liberal	Frank Arthur Calder	Atlin	CCF	1949	1st term	Ernest Edward Winch	Burnaby	CCF	1933	5th term	Angus MacLean	Cariboo	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Leslie Harvey Eyres	Chilliwack	Coalition	1937	4th term	Progressive Conservative	Thomas King	Columbia	Coalition	1931, 1934	6th term*	Liberal	Herbert John Welch	Comox	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Andrew Mowatt Whisker	Cowichan-Newcastle	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Leo Thomas Nimsick	Cranbrook	CCF	1949	1st term	Alexander Campbell Hope	Delta	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	Roderick Charles MacDonald	Dewdney	Coalition	1941	3rd term	Progressive Conservative	Charles Taschereau Beard	Esquimalt	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Liberal	Frank Mitchell	CCF	1951	1st term	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Fernie	Labour	1920	8th term	Henry Robson Bowman	Fort George	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Rupert Williams Haggen	Grand Forks-Greenwood	CCF	1949	1st term	Sidney John Smith	Kamloops	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Randolph Harding	Kaslo-Slocan	CCF	1945	2nd term	Ernest Crawford Carson	Lillooet	Coalition	1928, 1941	4th term*	Progressive Conservative	Battleman Milton MacIntyre	Mackenzie	Coalition	1949	1st term	George Sharratt Pearson	Nanaimo and the Islands	Coalition	1928	6th term	Liberal	Walter Hendricks	Nelson-Creston	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Byron Ingemar Johnson	New Westminster	Coalition	1933, 1945	5th term*	Liberal	Charles William Morrow	North Okanagan	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Liberal	John Henry Cates	North Vancouver	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Herbert Anscomb	Oak Bay	Coalition	1933	5th term	Progressive Conservative	Robert Cecil Steele	Omineca	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Glen Everton Braden	Peace River	Coalition	1937, 1949	3rd term*	Liberal	John Duncan McRae	Prince Rupert	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Arvid Lundell	Revelstoke	Coalition	1949	1st term	Progressive Conservative	Alexander Douglas Turnbull	Rossland-Trail	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Arthur James Richard Ash	Saanich	Coalition	1948	2nd term	Liberal	Arthur Brown Ritchie	Salmon Arm	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	Maurice Patrick Finnerty	Similkameen	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena	Coalition	1933	5th term	Liberal	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan	Coalition	1941, 1949	3rd term*	Independent	Social Credit	Donald Cameron Brown	Vancouver-Burrard	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	John Groves Gould	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	Allan James McDonell	Vancouver Centre	Coalition	1945	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	Coalition	1933, 1945	4th term*	Liberal	Arthur James Turner	Vancouver East	CCF	1941	3rd term	Harold Edward Winch	CCF	1933	5th term	Albert Reginald MacDougall	Vancouver-Point Grey	Coalition	1946	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	Tilly Jean Rolston	Coalition	1941	3rd term	Independent	Social Credit	Leigh Forbes Stevenson	Coalition	1946	2nd term	Progressive Conservative	Nancy Hodges	Victoria City	Coalition	1941	3rd term	Liberal	Daniel John Proudfoot	Coalition	1949	1st term	Liberal	William Thomas Straith	Coalition	1937	4th term	Liberal	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale	Coalition	1928	6th term	Liberal
-	-	-	-	-	-	James Mowat	Alberni	-	1941	3rd term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Angus MacLean	Cariboo	-	1949	1st term	-	Leslie Harvey Eyres	Chilliwack	-	1937	4th term	-	Thomas King	Columbia	-	1931, 1934	6th term*	-	-	-	-	-	-	Andrew Mowatt Whisker	Cowichan-Newcastle	-	1949	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	Alexander Campbell Hope	Delta	-	1945	2nd term	-	Roderick Charles MacDonald	Dewdney	-	1941	3rd term	-	Charles Taschereau Beard	Esquimalt	-	1945	2nd term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Henry Robson Bowman	Fort George	-	1949	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	Sidney John Smith	Kamloops	-	1949	1st term	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ernest Crawford Carson	Lillooet	-	1928, 1941	4th term*	-	-	-	-	-	-	George Sharratt Pearson	Nanaimo and the Islands	-	1928	6th term	-	Walter Hendricks	Nelson-Creston	-	1949	1st term	-	Byron Ingemar Johnson	New Westminster	-	1933, 1945	5th term*	-	Charles William Morrow	North Okanagan	-	1945	2nd term	-	-	-	-	-	-	Herbert Anscomb	Oak Bay	-	1933	5th term	-	Robert Cecil Steele	Omineca	-	1949	1st term	-	Glen Everton Braden	Peace River	-	1937, 1949	3rd term*	-	John Duncan McRae	Prince Rupert	-	1949	1st term	-	Arvid Lundell	Revelstoke	-	1949	1st term	-	Alexander Douglas Turnbull	Rossland-Trail	-	1949	1st term	-	Arthur James Richard Ash	Saanich	-	1948	2nd term	-	Arthur Brown Ritchie	Salmon Arm	-	1945	2nd term	-	Maurice Patrick Finnerty	Similkameen	-	1949	1st term	-	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena	-	1933	5th term	-	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan	-	1941, 1949	3rd term*	-	-	Donald Cameron Brown	Vancouver-Burrard	-	1945	2nd term	-	John Groves Gould	-	1949	1st term	-	Allan James McDonell	Vancouver Centre	-	1945	2nd term	-	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	-	1933, 1945	4th term*	-	-	Vancouver East	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Albert Reginald MacDougall	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	1946	2nd term	-	Tilly Jean Rolston	-	1941	3rd term	-	-	Leigh Forbes Stevenson	-	1946	2nd term	-	Nancy Hodges	Victoria City	-	1941	3rd term	-	Daniel John Proudfoot	-	1949	1st term	-	William Thomas Straith	-	1937	4th term	-	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale	-	1928	6th term	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	James Mowat	Alberni	-	1941	3rd term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Esquimalt	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	William Andrew Cecil Bennett	South Okanagan	-	1941, 1949	3rd term*	-	-	-	Vancouver-Burrard	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver Centre	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	Tilly Jean Rolston	-	1941	3rd term	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Burrard	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver Centre	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria City	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Vancouver-Point Grey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Notes:

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Esquimalt	Frank Mitchell	CCF	October 1, 1951	C.T. Beard died November 21, 1950

Other changes

James Mowat joins the Coalition in February 1950.
W.A.C. Bennett resigns from the Coalition to become an Independent on March 15, 1951. He joins the Social Credit League in December but continues to sit as an independent.
Tilly Rolston resigns from the Coalition to become an Independent on March 29, 1951.
The Coalition between the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives collapses on January 19, 1952. Herbert Anscomb, Leslie Harvey Eyres, Roderick Charles MacDonald, Alexander Campbell Hope, Arvid Lundell, Ernest Crawford Carson, Arthur Brown Ritchie, Allan James McDonell, Leigh Forbes Stevenson, Donald Cameron Brown and Albert Reginald MacDougall move to the opposition as Progressive Conservatives.
John Henry Cates, Battleman Milton MacIntyre and Herbert John Welch retain the Coalition designation and continue to support the Johnson Government.
The remaining 23 Coalition MLAs continue to sit as Liberals.