Trivia answers to last blog entry

1) In 1921 and 1926, voters in Portage-La Prairie defeated prime minister Arthur Meighen. In 1945, Prince Albert, Sask. voters rejected William Lyon Mackenzie King while the country gave him his third straight majority. In 1993, the voters of Vancouver Centre defeated prime minister Kim Campbell and her historic party fell from majority to just two seats.
2) In 1878, Sir John A. Macdonald feared he could lose his Kingston, Ont. seat so he ran in Marquette, Man. and Victoria, B.C. He did lose Kingston and chose the Victoria seat as his next political home. In 1896, Wilfrid Laurier ran and won in Prince Albert, Northwest Territories but chose to sit as MP for Québec-Ést.

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3) In 1984, John Turner became Liberal prime minister but he governed without a seat. In the Sept. 4 election, he ran in Vancouver Quadra and won the seat but Brian Mulroney was sworn in as prime minister before Turner was sworn in as a western MP and opposition leader. Turner also is the last prime minister born abroad, in England.
4) Provencher riding in Manitoba was represented in 1872 by Father of Confederation Georges-Étienne Cartier, Macdonald’s Québec lieutenant, and then by Métis leader Louis Riel, once elected and twice acclaimed in 1873 and 1874 despite being wanted by police.
5) Calgary elected R.B. Bennett in 1935 and Stephen Harper in 2006 and 2008. Prince Albert, Sask. elected Liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King four times (1926, 1930, 1935, 1940) and John Diefenbaker (1953-1979)
6) Joe Clark from rural Yellowhead riding in Alberta became prime minister June 4, 1979, a day before his 40th birthday.
7) Kim Campbell represented Vancouver Centre when she became prime minister in 1993
8) Winnipeg North (now Winnipeg North Centre) was represented by Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth founding leader J.S. Woodsworth (1925-1942) and by Stanley Knowles (1942-1984).
9) The Progressives in 1921, the Social Credit Party and the CCF (later the NDP) in 1935 and the Reform Party in a 1989 by-election followed by a 52-seat onslaught in 1993
10) Donald Smith, elected as an Independent Conservative from Selkirk riding in 1873, sided with opposition Liberals to bring the government down in 1873 over the railway bribery scandal. Later, he became a key player in the Canadian Pacific Railway and as Lord Strathcona, drove the last spike of the CPR at Craigellachie, British Columbia Nov. 7, 1885