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Vacation of Seats in the House of Commons: The Problem of Burnaby-Coquitlam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

J. R. Mallory
J. R. Mallory*
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McGill University
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 1964 , pp. 125 - 130
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1956

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References

1 Pollard, A. F., Factors in Modern History (Boston: Beacon Paperback; 1960), 95.Google Scholar

2 Dawson, R. MacGregor, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography (Toronto, 1958), 375.Google Scholar

3 I must here record my thanks to Mr. Stanley Knowles, MP, for providing me with the information relating to Mr. Regier's resignation.

4 The text of the two documents follows:

“I, Erhart Regier, Member of the House of Commons of Canada for the Electoral District of Burnaby-Coquitlam, do hereby resign my seat in the said House of Commons, for the constituency aforesaid.

Given under my hand and seal at Winnipeg, Manitoba, this thirteenth day of July, A.D. 1962.”

“We, the undersigned, hereby give notice, in pursuance of section seven of Chapter 145 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, there being no Speaker, that a vacancy hath occurred in the representation in the House of Commons for the Electoral District of Burnaby-Coquitlam consequent upon the resignation of the sitting Member therefor, and you are hereby authorized to issue a new Writ for the election of a Member to fill such vacancy.

Given under our hand and seal at Winnipeg, Manitoba, this thirteenth day of July, A.D. 1962.”

5 Canada. House of Commons Debates (unrevised) 03 18, 1962, 1611.Google Scholar

6 Ibid, 1612.