Andrew Charles Elliott

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name = Andrew Charles Elliott


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caption = Hon. Andrew Charles Elliott
order = 4th Premier of British Columbia
term_start = February 1, 1876
term_end = February 11, 1878
predecessor = George Anthony Walkem
successor = George Anthony Walkem
Robert Beaven (1882)
birth_date = "c." 1828
birth_place = Ireland
death_date = death date|1889|4|9|mf=y
death_place = San Francisco
party = None
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Andrew Charles Elliott (Ireland c. 1828 – April 9, 1889 San Francisco) was a British Columbian politician and jurist. Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included Gold Commissioner, stipendiary magistrate and, following the union of the Island and Mainland Colonies in 1866 was appoint High Sheriff of the province, resigning his magristracy to take the post. He was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council from 1865 to 1866 and after the colony became a province of Canada he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet.

In 1876 Elliott became Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence but his government was unstable, was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa build a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.

Andrew Charles Elliott is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia. His obituary in Amor de Cosmos' Victoria "Colonist" newspaper read:

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5503 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
*"Halfway to the Goldfields", Lorraine Harris, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver, 1977 ISBN 0-88894-062-9