NORTH SHORE POLITIC

MPs throut
the ages

By Andrew McCredie
Community Kditoy (andrew@nsnewscom)

LIKE it or not, history will be made Lomorrow as
North Shore voters select their next Members of
Partiament,

And as you'll see from the list below, those elected to serve will
join a varied cast of characters dating back to Vancouver North's
first Member of Parliament, AVE, Munn, a Liberal candidate elect:
ed’on July 28, 1930,

" Ie owas Munn whe began a
Liberal domination of the
North Shore that would: last
over 42. years. ‘The first none
Liberal to be elected on the
North Shore was Hd Nelson,
who also holds the distinction
of being the only NDP MP
ever elected around these parts,
Indeed, the upstart Reform
party has doubled the NDP
number in just one election, as
Ted White and Herb Grubel

" os rode Manning's western wild-
fire co office in 1993,0f the 27 MDs elected over 19 elections on
the North Shore, 15 have been Liberal, nine Progressive
~ Conservative, two Reform and one NDP.

Only one woman has served a North Shore riding;

Mary Collins held the Capilano seat as a PC from 1984
to 1993, °

The all-time leader of the pack when it comes to terms is
Liberal James Sinclair, who served an tnprecedented seven terms
(Oct. 1935 to June, 1962), a mind-boggling 26 years, eight
months in office (Sinelair’s daughter Margaret brought the nation-
al media spotlight to Lynn Valley in 1971 when she married a
Liberal by the name of Pierre Elliot Trudeau).

July 28, 1930

Prime Minister - R.B. Bennett (Conservative)
Vancouver North - A.E, Munn (Liberal)

Oct. 14, 1935

Prime Minister - WL, MacKenzie King (Liberal)
Vancouver North - James Sinclair (Liberal)

March 26, 1940
Prime Minister - W.L MacKenzie King (Liberal)
Vancouver North - James Sinclair (Liberal)

June 11, 1945
_ Prime Minister - W.L,,
MacKenzie King (Liberal)
Vancouver North - James
Sinclair (Liberal)

MARY COLLINS

June 27, 1949
- Prime Minister - Louis St.

Laurent (Libera)

Coast Capilano - James

Sinclair (Liberal)

Aug. 10, 1953
Prime Minister - Louis St.
Laurent (Liberal)

Coast Capilano - james
Sinclair (Liberal)

June 10, 1957
Prime Minister - John G.
Diefenbaker (Conservative)
Coast Capilano - James
Sinclair (Liberal)

Marsh 31, 1956
Prime Minister - John G.
Diefenbaker (Conservative)
Coast Capilano - James
Sinclair (Liberal)

June 18, 1962
Prime Minister - John G.
Dielenbaker (Conservative)
Coast Capilano - Jack Davis
(Liberal)

April 8, 1963
Prime Minister - Lester B.
Pearson (Liberal)

Coast Capilano - Jack Davis
(Liberal) :

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JACK Davis (left) strikes a campalgn pose with Burrard Dry Dock machinist Fred Eaton in May of 1962. Davis won
the Coast Capilano seat for the Liberats in the June 18 elaction, continuling the Grits dominance of the riding.

Nov. 8, 1965
Prime Minister - Lester B. Pearson (Liberal)
Coast Capilano - Jack Davis (Liberal)

June 25, 1968
Prime Minister - Pierre E. Trudeau (Liberal)
Capilano - Jack Davis (Liberal)
Burnaby-Seymour - Ray Perrault (Liberal)

Oct. 30, 1972

Prime Minister - Pierre E, Trucleaut (Liberal)
Capilano = Jack Davis (Liberal)
Burnaby-Seymour - Ed Nelson (NDP)

July 8, 1974

Prime Minister - Pierre E, Trudeau (Liberal)
North Vancouver - Capilano - Ron Huntington
(PC)

Burnaby-Seymour - Mark Raines (Liberal)

Mey 22, 1979

Prime Minister - Joe Clark (P.C,)

Capilano - Ron Huntington (P.C.)

North Vancouver-Burnaby - Chuck Caok —,
(PC) fo, re

Feb. 18, 1980

Prime Minister - Pierre E. Trudeau
(Liberal)

Capilano - Ron Huntington (P.C.}

North Vancouver-Burnaby - Chuck Cook
(PC)

Sept. 4, 1984

Prime Minister - Brian Mulroney (Conservative)
Capilano - Mary Collins (P.C.)

North Vancouver-Burnaly - Chuck Cook (P.C.)

Nov. 21, 1988 ;

Prime Minister - Brian. Mulroney (Conservative)
Capilano-Howe Sound - Mary
Collins (P.-C)
North Vancouver - Chuck
Cook (P.C.)

Oct. 25, 1993

Prime Minister - Jean Chretien
(Liberal)

Capilano-Howe Sound - Herb
Grubel (Reform)

North Vancouver - Ted White
(Reform)

June 2, 1997

Prime Minister - 22222222?
West Van-Sunshine Coast and
North Vancouver - 22222222?

PRIME Minister Louis St.
Laurent (second from left)
paid a visit to North
Vancouver during the
1957 federal election cam-
paign. Joining the PM out-
side North Van City Hall
are North Van District
Reeve Samuel McCrea
(far teft), West Van District
Reeve Russel Richards
(centre), Coast Capilano
MP and Minister of
Fisheries James Sinclair
(second from right) and
North Van City Mayor
Charles Cates (far right).
St. Laurent lost the 1957
election to Diefenbaker's
Conservatives, however
Sinclair retained his Coast

Capilano seat. °
North Van Musoum and Archives