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♂ James Dunsmuir
aliasJames Dunsmuir
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 3 0 3
Birth 8 July 1851 → 172 years + 9 months ago
Lived 68 years + 10 months
First mandate 9 July 1898 → 125 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 47 years
Death 6 June 1920 → 103 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 9 months after 4 September 1903
Special notes
None
 
James Dunsmuir (1851–1920)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, British Columbia — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
If you happen to hate unions, then the Premier of British Columbia from 1900 to 1902 might be your hero. Operating several coal mines in the province, he voiced his opposition to the labour mouvement to a royal commission: "I object to all unions... They simply take the management of the mine... I want the management of my own works, and if I recognize the union, I cannot have that." It should be noted that the mines of British Columbia were among the most dangerous in the world at that time. Between 1889 and 1908 in British Columbia, twenty-three men were killed in the production of every million tons of coal, while the average for North America as a whole was six deaths per million tons.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 5 0 22 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. BC 9
GOV
 1 Premier 48–51 09 Jun 1900 — 20 Nov 1902 2 5 11

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 714 Votes: 459 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 British Columbia
9 July 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28761(F) — 23 Jul 2023 21:19 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
GOV
 1/2 297 64.71% +135 Loser:
OPPO
 162 35.29% William J. McAllan
After his election:
10 Jul 1898 47
GOV
 →
OPPO
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
Service: 1 year 10 months 30 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 580 Votes: 474 Participation: 81.72% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 British Columbia
9 June 1900
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28813(F) — 23 Jul 2023 21:57 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
48
OPPO
 1/2 249 52.53% +24 Loser:
LAB
 225 47.47% John Radcliffe
After his election:
10 Jun 1900 48
OPPO
 →
GOV
 Changed allegiance (joined government)
15 Jun 1900 48
GOV
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 6 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 580 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
9		 British Columbia
17 July 1900
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28832(F) — 14 Oct 2022 19:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
49
GOV
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 1 month 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 845 Votes: 719 Participation: 85.09% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 British Columbia
5 September 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28874(F) — 31 Jul 2021 20:11 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
52		 Successor:
SP
 288 40.06% Parker Williams

Online biographical references (2)

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James Dunsmuir		 17 Feb 2024
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