Provisional Yukon Territorial Council

The Provisional Yukon Territorial Council was created by Yukon Act of 1898 as an appointed body, the first election to the council took place in 1900 to elect two at-large members alongside the already-appointed ones. Until 1909, the council retained a mix of appointed and elected members, with the 1909 election being the first one to elect the entire body.[1][2]

Commissioners during the Provisional Council

Name Year appointed Year served
James Morrow Walsh June 13, 1898 July 5, 1898
James Hamilton Ross 1898 1901
Henry William Newlands (acting) 1901 1902
Zachary Taylor Wood (1st time) (acting) 1902 1903
Frederick Congdon 1903 1904
Zachary Taylor Wood (2nd time) (acting) 1904 1905
William Wallace Burns McInnes 1905 1906
John T. Lithgow (acting) 1906 1907
Alexander Henderson[a] 1907 1909

Members

Appointed

Appointments to the council were chosen by the Government of Canada.

Appointed Members of the Territorial Council[3]
Name Date Appointed Date Left Reason
  Joseph-Éna Girouard July 8, 1898 1908
  Sam Steele July 8, 1898 September 5, 1899 Recalled to Ottawa by the federal government.[4]
  Thomas McGuire July 8, 1898 October 7, 1898 Moved to the District of Saskatchewan.[5]
  Frederick Wade July 8, 1898 October 17, 1898
  Calixte-Aimé Dugas October 7, 1898
  William Henry Clement October 17, 1898 March 13, 1901
  Aylesworth Perry September 5, 1899 July 31, 1900
  Edmund Senkler September 5, 1899
  Zachary Taylor Wood July 31, 1900
  Frederick Congdon March 13, 1901 September 14, 1901
  Henry William Newlands September 14, 1901 1903 Appointed to Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories[6]
  John T. Lithgow January 8, 1904

Elected

The first election held on October 18, 1900 elected two members at large. The council would divide the territory into districts for the second general election held on January 13, 1903. Appointed members during this period did not have to be reappointed, although vacancies in appointed seats were filled with new appointments, and only seats held by elected members were vacated during elections. The elections were called by the Yukon Commissioner, while electoral district boundaries were controlled by an act of legislation from the council.

Members elected in 1900

District Member elected Affiliation First elected No. of terms
  At-large Arthur Wilson Yukon Party 1900 1st term
  Alex Prud'homme Yukon Party 1900 1st term

Members elected in 1903

District Member elected Affiliation First elected No. of terms
  District No. 1 Joseph Clarke Opposition 1903 1st term
  Alfred Thompson[b] Government 1903 1st term
  District No. 2 John Pringle Unknown 1903 1st term
  Maxime Landreville Unknown 1903 1st term
  Whitehorse Robert Lowe Government 1903 1st term

Members elected in 1905

District Member elected First elected No. of terms
  Bonanza Richard Gillespie 1905 1st term
  Klondike George Black 1905 1st term
  North Dawson Henry Macauley 1905 1st term
  South Dawson Thomas O'Brien 1905 1st term
  Whitehorse Robert Lowe 1903 2nd term

Members elected in 1907

District Member elected First elected No. of terms
  Bonanza Thomas Kearney 1907 1st term
  Klondike George Black 1905 2nd term
  North Dawson Joseph Lachapelle 1907 1st term
  South Dawson John Grant 1907 1st term
  Whitehorse Robert Lowe 1903 3rd term

Notes

  1. ↑ Henderson continued to serve as commissioner after the fifth general election.
  2. ↑ Alfred Thompson resigned his seat on November 3, 1904 after being elected as Yukon's federal Member of Parliament, but no by-election was held to succeed him

References

  1. ↑ "First All-Elected Yukon Territorial Council". Whitehorse Star, July 9, 1909.
  2. ↑ Steven Smyth, The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999). Clairedge Press, 1999.
  3. ↑ Department of the Interior (1907). The Yukon Territory, its history and resources. Government of Canada. pp. 20–21.
  4. ↑ "Pioneer Yukoner". Tenth Year No. 83. Dawson Daily News. November 10, 1908. p. 4.
  5. ↑ "The Honourable Thomas H. McGuire". The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Yukon Council Met Yesterday". The Yukon Sun. January 5, 1904.
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