6th Parliament of British Columbia

The 6th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1891 to 1894. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in June 1890. John Robson served as premier until his death in 1892. Theodore Davie succeeded Robson as premier.

There were four sessions of the 6th Legislature:

Session	Start	End
1st	January 15, 1891	April 20, 1891
2nd	January 28, 1892	April 23, 1892
3rd	January 26, 1893	April 12, 1893
4th	January 18, 1894	April 12, 1894

David Williams Higgins served as speaker.

Members of the 6th Parliament

The following members were elected to the assembly in 1891:

	Member	Electoral district	Party	First elected / previously elected	No.# of term(s)
	Thomas Fletcher	Alberni	Government	1890	1st term
	Joseph Mason	Cariboo	Government	1886	2nd term
	John Robson		Government	1871, 1882	4th term*
	Samuel Augustus Rogers		Government	1890	1st term
	Ithiel Blake Nason (1891)		Government	1888, 1891	2nd term*
	Hugh Watt (1892)		Government	1892	1st term
	William Adams (1894)		Government	1894	1st term
	Robert Hanley Hall	Cassiar	Government	1890	1st term
	Joseph Hunter	Comox	Government	1871, 1890	2nd term*
	Henry Croft	Cowichan	Government	1886	2nd term
	Theodore Davie		Government	1882	3rd term
	James Baker	East Kootenay	Government	1886	2nd term
	David Williams Higgins	Esquimalt	Government	1886	2nd term
	Charles Edward Pooley		Government	1882	3rd term
	John Paton Booth	The Islands	Government	1871, 1890	2nd term*
	Alfred Wellington Smith	Lillooet	Government	1889	2nd term
	David Alexander Stoddart		Opposition	1890	1st term
	William Thomas Forster	Nanaimo	Labour	1890	1st term
	Colin Campbell McKenzie		Farmer	1890	1st term
	Thomas Keith	Nanaimo City	Labour	1890	1st term
	John Cunningham Brown	New Westminster City	Independent	1890	1st term
	Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton	Vancouver City	Opposition	1890	1st term
	James Welton Horne		Independent	1890	1st term
	George William Anderson	Victoria	Government	1886	2nd term
	David McEwen Eberts		Government	1890	1st term
	Robert Beaven	Victoria City	Opposition	1871	6th term
	John Grant		Opposition	1882	3rd term
	George Lawson Milne		Opposition	1890	1st term
	John Herbert Turner		Government	1886	2nd term
	James M. Kellie	West Kootenay	Independent	1890	1st term
	Thomas Edwin Kitchen	Westminster	Opposition	1890	1st term
	James Punch		Opposition	1890	1st term
	Colin Buchanan Sword (1890)		Opposition	1890	1st term
	John Robson		Government	1871, 1882	4th term*
	George Bohun Martin	Yale	Government	1882	3rd term
	Charles Augustus Semlin		Opposition	1871, 1882	4th term*
	Forbes George Vernon		Government	1875, 1886	4th term*

Notes:

1. Government candidates supported the Robson administration
2. opposed to the Robson administration
3. Both Labour candidates were nominated by the Miners' and Mine Labourers' Protective Association (MMLPA)
4. A "farmers' candidate" endorsed by the MMLPA
5. Elected in both Westminster and Cariboo, choosing to sit for Cariboo

By-elections

By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:

• James Baker Minister of Education and Immigration, acclaimed July 30, 1892

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

Electoral district	Member elected	Election date	Reason
Westminster	Colin Buchanan Sword	November 20, 1890	John Robson resigned, elected in both Westminster and Cariboo
Cariboo	Ithiel Blake Nason	March 20, 1891	death of Joseph Mason on December 2, 1890
	Hugh Watt	November 30, 1892	death of John Robson on June 29, 1892
	William Adams	November 30, 1893	death of Ithiel Blake Nason on May 27, 1893