18th Parliament of British Columbia

The 18th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1934 to 1937. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in November 1933. The Liberal Party, led by Thomas Dufferin Pattullo, formed the government. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) formed the official opposition.

Henry George Thomas Perry served as speaker for the assembly.

Members of the 18th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1933:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term(s)
	George Sharratt Pearson	Alberni-Nanaimo	Liberal	1928	2nd term
	William James Asselstine	Atlin	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Ernest Edward Winch	Burnaby	CCF	1933	1st term
	Donald Morrison MacKay	Cariboo	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Edward Dodsley Barrow	Chilliwack	Liberal	1916, 1933	4th term*
	William Henry Sutherland	Columbia-Revelstoke	Liberal	1916	5th term
	Thomas King (1934)		Liberal	1931, 1934	2nd term*
	Laurence Arnold Hanna	Comox	Liberal	1928	2nd term
	Hugh George Egioke Savage	Cowichan-Newcastle	Oxford Group Movement	1933	1st term
	Frank Mitchell MacPherson	Cranbrook	Liberal	1928	2nd term
	Robert Swailes	Delta	CCF	1933	1st term
			Social Constructives
	David William Strachan	Dewdney	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Robert Henry Pooley	Esquimalt	Unionist	1912	6th term
	Thomas Aubert Uphill	Fernie	Independent Labour Party	1920	4th term
	Henry George Thomas Perry	Fort George	Liberal	1920, 1933	3rd term*
	Dougald MacPherson	Grand Forks-Greenwood	Liberal	1925, 1933	2nd term*
	Alexander McDonald	The Islands	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Robert Henry Carson	Kamloops	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Charles Sidney Leary	Kaslo-Slocan	Liberal	1924, 1933	2nd term*
	George Matheson Murray	Lillooet	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Ernest Bakewell	Mackenzie	CCF	1933	1st term
			Social Constructives
	Frank Putnam	Nelson-Creston	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Arthur Wellesley Gray	New Westminster	Liberal	1924	3rd term
	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	North Okanagan	Liberal	1916, 1933	4th term*
	Harley Christian Erskine Anderson	North Vancouver	CCF	1933	1st term
	Dorothy Steeves (1934)		CCF	1934	1st term
	Alexander Malcolm Manson	Omineca	Liberal	1916	5th term
	Mark Matthew Connelly (1936)		Liberal	1936	1st term
	Clive Montgomery Francis Planta	Peace River	NPIG	1933	1st term
	Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	Prince Rupert	Liberal	1916	5th term
	Richard Ronald Burns	Rossland-Trail	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Norman William Whittaker	Saanich	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Rolf Wallgren Bruhn	Salmon Arm	NPIG	1924	3rd term
	Charles Herbert Percy Tupper	Similkameen	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Edward Tourtellotte Kenney	Skeena	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Joseph Allen Harris	South Okanagan	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Gerald Grattan McGeer	Vancouver-Burrard	Liberal	1916, 1933	2nd term*
	Helen Douglas Smith			1933	1st term
	John Howard Forester (1936)			1936	1st term
	Gordon McGregor Sloan	Vancouver Centre	Liberal	1933	1st term
	Gordon Sylvester Wismer			1933	1st term
	John Price	Vancouver East	CCF	1933	1st term
	Harold Edward Winch			1933	1st term
	Stanley Stewart McKeen	Vancouver-Point Grey	Liberal	1933	1st term
	George Moir Weir			1933	1st term
	Robert Wilkinson			1933	1st term
	Herbert Anscomb	Victoria City	Independent	1933	1st term
	Robert Connell		CCF	1933	1st term
			Social Constructives
	John Hart		Liberal	1916, 1933	3rd term*
	Byron Ingemar Johnson			1933	1st term
	John Joseph Alban Gillis	Yale	Liberal	1928	2nd term

Party standings

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	34
	Co-operative Commonwealth	7
	Non-Partisan Independent Group	2
	Independent	2
	Unionist	1
	Independent Labour	1
Total		47
Government Majority		21

By-elections

By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Electoral district	Member elected	Party	Election date	Reason
Columbia	Thomas King	Liberal	March 8, 1934	Re-establishment of Columbia electoral district
North Vancouver	Dorothy Steeves	CCF	July 14, 1934	H.C.E. Anderson died April 17, 1934
Omineca	Mark Matthew Connelly	Liberal	June 22, 1936	A.M. Manson resigned September 14, 1935, to contest federal election
Vancouver-Burrard	John Howard Forester	Liberal	September 1, 1936	G.G. McGeer resigned October 1, 1935, to contest federal election