SIR CHARLES HIBBERT TUPPER AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1903-1924

A closer look at Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper's years in British Columbia (BC) Canada suggests that his public career did not so much end as change when he left Parliament and electoral politics. Yet, what stands out from the story of Tupper's involvement in provincial politics is how unsuccessful he was in shaping political opinion and political practice in BC. McDonald charts Tupper's role in BC provincial politics from the early 1900s to the 1920s and explores how his outsider status in BC illuminates key aspects of the province's political culture in the early years of the 20th century.