On Jan. 29, William Smithe would become the premier of British Columbia, succeeding over Robert Beaven. Smithe had come to British Columbia in 1862 to work as a farmer and would win a seat in the provincial legislature in the first provincial...
From 1935 to 1940, Canada went through a monumental change. The Great Depression gradually ended, and in its place the deadliest war in world history would begin. By the time the 1940 election came along, the political landscape of Canada had...
John Bracken The last episode, I looked at Gordon Graydon, the man who was the Leader of the Official Opposition, but who did not lead his actual party. The party leader was another man named John Bracken. Bracken had become leader of the...