Socialist Party of British Columbia

Socialist Party of British Columbia
Former provincial party
Founded1901 (1901)
Dissolved1935 (1935)
Succeeded byCo-Operative Commonwealth Federation (British Columbia Section)
HeadquartersVancouver
IdeologySocialism
Impossibilism

The Socialist Party of British Columbia (SPBC) was a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada, from 1901 to 1905. In 1903, the SPBC won seats in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

The editor of the SPBC newspaper, the Western Clarion, was E. T. Kingsley, a prominent Canadian socialist.[1]

It merged with other groups in 1905 to form a national political party, the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC). In 1911, the Socialist Party of Canada (BC section) members joined the new Social Democratic Party of Canada, the earliest example of political party reform in British Columbia and Canada.[2]

The Socialist Party of Canada in British Columbia joined the BC Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1933.

  1. ^ Francis, Daniel, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Harbour Publishing. p. 664.
  2. ^ Whitehorn, Alan (2007). "Social Democracy". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 25 February 2007.