Edward Gawler Prior, PC was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia. Prior worked as a mining engineer in England until 1873 when he moved to the province where he settled in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. , Ltd. In 1878 he resigned and was appointed Inspector of Mines for the British Columbia government. He left that position and went into business as an iron and hardware merchant in 1880.

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  • Edward Gawler Prior, PC was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia. Prior worked as a mining engineer in England until 1873 when he moved to the province where he settled in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. , Ltd. In 1878 he resigned and was appointed Inspector of Mines for the British Columbia government. He left that position and went into business as an iron and hardware merchant in 1880. Prior was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1886. In 1888, Prior won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative. From December 1895 to July 1896 and 1897 Prior served as Controller of Inland Revenue in the cabinets of Prime Minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell and his successor Sir Charles Tupper. He lost his seat in 1901 due to violations of election rules. He moved to provincial politics and was elected to the British Columbia legislature in 1901 becoming minister of mines. In 1902 he became Premier leading the province's last non-partisan administration but was dismissed by the lieutenant-governor in 1903 due to charges of conflict of interest that involved giving an important construction contract to his own hardware business, and lost his seat in the 1904 provincial election. He was also defeated that year in an attempt to return to the federal House of Commons. Prior was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia in 1919 but became ill and died in office within a year of his appointment. Edward Gawler Prior is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia. Prior was the last Canadian premier to be dismissed by a lieutenant-governor.
  • Edward Gawler Prior, PC war ein kanadischer Politiker und Bergbauingenieur. Von November 1902 bis Juni 1903 war er Premierminister der Provinz British Columbia, von Dezember 1919 bis zu seinem Tod Vizegouverneur.
  • L'honorable Edward Gawler Prior, C.P. était un ingénieur minier et homme politique en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Il est d'abord élu à la législature provinciale en 1886. En 1902 il devient premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique et dirige le dernier gouvernement non-partisan dans la province, mais est destitué par le lieutenant-gouverneur en 1903 à cause d'accusations de conflit d'intérêt. Prior est nommé lieutenant-gouverneur en 1919 mais tombe malade et meurt dans l'exercice de ses fonctions dans l'année suivant sa nomination. Il fut le dernier premier ministre provincial canadien à être destitué par un lieutenant-gouverneur. Il était franc-maçon.
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  • 1888-1901
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  • Edward Gawler Prior, PC was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia. Prior worked as a mining engineer in England until 1873 when he moved to the province where he settled in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co. , Ltd. In 1878 he resigned and was appointed Inspector of Mines for the British Columbia government. He left that position and went into business as an iron and hardware merchant in 1880.
  • Edward Gawler Prior, PC war ein kanadischer Politiker und Bergbauingenieur. Von November 1902 bis Juni 1903 war er Premierminister der Provinz British Columbia, von Dezember 1919 bis zu seinem Tod Vizegouverneur.
  • L'honorable Edward Gawler Prior, C.P. était un ingénieur minier et homme politique en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Il est d'abord élu à la législature provinciale en 1886. En 1902 il devient premier ministre de la Colombie-Britannique et dirige le dernier gouvernement non-partisan dans la province, mais est destitué par le lieutenant-gouverneur en 1903 à cause d'accusations de conflit d'intérêt.
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  • Edward Gawler Prior
  • Edward Gawler Prior
  • Edward Gawler Prior
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