The Greater Vancouver Chinook
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issued: 2016-08-24
issued: 1914-06-13
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gvchinook/items/1.0315395/source.json
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note: IWuve* CHINOOK Vol. Ill, No. 5 SOUTH VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1914. Price 5 cents South Vancouver Will Have Her Own Representative in Dominion Parliament for First Time���South Vancouver and Point Grey Will Now Form Riding of Vancouver South Redistribution Splits Vancouver City into two Ridings and Places Burnaby in New Westminster Riding���South Vancouver Gets Fair Deal and New Order Will Lend Zest to The Political Life of the Community Much interest has been aroused throughout South Vancouver over the Redistribution Bill, which is to be brought down in the House of Commons. In the re-subdivision of British Columbia for Dominion electoral purposes, South Vancouver, with Point Grey, has been designated as the constituency of Vancouver, South. This will mean that at the next election f'T the House of Commons, the people of South Vancouver will have the privilege of electing a member of their own. Vancouver will henceforth have two seats���Vancouver and Burrard. It is said that there was a great fight between the Liberals and Conservatives on this point. Mr. H. H. Stevens, M. P., wanted Vancouver to have two members to be elected at large, and it was only after very strenuous fighting that the city was finally cut in two. British Columbia will henceforth have thirteen members in the House <ef Commons in place of seven of days gone by. The representation of the province will, doubtless, he materially changed as a result of this redistribution. Though Point Grey is combined in the new riding of Vancouver, South, the population of Seiuth Vancouver being three or four times as great as that of Point Grey, the new order of things will mean that South Vancouver will have the balance of power, and in the next parliament will have her own representative in Ottawa to fight for a square deal for the municipality from thc Dominion treasury. Just who this representative is likely to be cannot very well be guessed at from present conditions. That the Conservativ…
note: Titled "The Greater Vancouver Chinook" from 1912-05-18 to 1915-05-01, for 1915-05-15, and from 1915-06-05 to 1915-09-11; "The British Columbia Chinook" for dates 1915-05-09, 1915-05-22, and 1915-05-29; "The Saturday Chinook" from 1915-09-18 to 1916-04-15; and "The Standard" from 1916-04-22 onward. Published by Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited from 1912-05-18 to 1916-01-01; Chinook Printing House from 1916-01-08 to 1916-04-15; The Standard Printers from 1916-04-22 to 1917-04-07; and The Standard Company from 1917-04-14 onward.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0315395
language: English
lat: 49.2611110
long: -123.1138890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text