The Yukon Territorial Council was the first sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Yukon Legislative Assembly

-History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

. The Council began with the appointment of its first members on July 8, 1898 and was dissolved in June of 1909.

Appointed members

Appointments to the Council were chosen by the Government of Canada.

Appointed Members of the Territorial Council
Name	Date Appointed	Date Left	Reason
Joseph-Éna Girouard Joseph-Éna Girouard Joseph-Éna Girouard was a Canandian notary, lawyer and political figure. He represented the Drummond-Arthabaska and Arthabaska districts in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec beginning in 1886 and was appointed to the Yukon territorial council in 1898.-Early life:Born in Stanfold, Canada East, the...	July 8, 1898	1908
Sam Steele Sam Steele Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO was a distinguished Canadian soldier and police official...	July 8, 1898	September 5, 1899	Recalled to Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...  by the federal government.
Thomas McGuire	July 8, 1898	October 7, 1898	Moved to the District of Saskatchewan District of Saskatchewan The District of Saskatchewan was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories. Much of the area was incorporated into the province of Saskatchewan. The western part became part of Alberta, and the eastern part is now part of Manitoba. Its capital was Prince Albert... .
Frederick Wade	July 8, 1898	October 17, 1898
Calixte-Aimé Dugas	October 7, 1898
William Henry Clement	October 17, 1898	March 13, 1901
Aylesworth Perry Aylesworth Perry Aylesworth Bowen Perry, C.M.G. served as the sixth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1900, to March 31, 1923.- Early life :...	September 5, 1899	July 31, 1900
Edmund Senkler	September 5, 1899
Zachary Taylor Wood Zachary Taylor Wood Zachary Taylor Wood, CMG was acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory of Canada.-Early life:Born in Annapolis Naval Academy in 1860, where his father John Taylor Wood was stationed...	July 31, 1900
Frederick Congdon Frederick Tennyson Congdon Frederick Tennyson Congdon was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and served as the Yukon's fourth Commissioner....	March 13, 1901	September 14, 1901
Henry William Newlands Henry William Newlands Henry William Newlands was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and served as Saskatchewan's fourth Lieutenant Governor.Born in March 1862 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Newlands was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1883, after which he would go on to have an important role in the domain of law...	September 14, 1901	1903	Appointed to Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories is the name of two different superior courts for the Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories, which have existed at different times.The first Supreme Court of the North-West Territories was created in 1885...
John T. Lithgow	January 8, 1904

Elections

The Council would exist through four general elections. The first election

Yukon general election, 1900

The 1900 Yukon general election was the first general election in the history of the Yukon territory held on October 18, 1900.-Campaign:The six-member territorial council was expanded to eight by adding two elected members. This was the smallest general election in Canadian history.The election was...

 held on October 18, 1900 elected two members at large. The council would divide the territory into districts for the second general election

Yukon general election, 1903

The 1903 Yukon general election was held on January 13, 1903. The council was expanded to elect five of the ten members to the Yukon Territorial Council...

 held on January 13, 1903. Two more general elections would follow before the council was entirely dissolved. Appointed members during this period did not have to be reappointed, only seats to elected members were dissolved. The elections were called by the Yukon Commissioner, while electoral district boundaries were controlled by an act of legislation from the council.

Elected Members of the Territorial Council
District	October 18, 1900 Yukon general election, 1900 The 1900 Yukon general election was the first general election in the history of the Yukon territory held on October 18, 1900.-Campaign:The six-member territorial council was expanded to eight by adding two elected members. This was the smallest general election in Canadian history.The election was...	January 13, 1903 Yukon general election, 1903 The 1903 Yukon general election was held on January 13, 1903. The council was expanded to elect five of the ten members to the Yukon Territorial Council...	November 3, 1904	April 12, 1905 Yukon general election, 1905 The 1905 Yukon general election was held on 12 April 1905 to elect five of the ten members of the Yukon Territorial Council. The Yukon Liberals and Conservatives fought the election on fully defined party lines for the first time in Yukon history....	April 16, 1907 Yukon general election, 1907 The 1907 Yukon general election was held on 16 April 1907 to elect five of the ten members of the Yukon Territorial Council.-Members Elected:...
At Large #1	Arthur Wilson
At Large #2	Alex Prud'homme
District No. 1 Yukon Electoral District No. 1 Yukon Electoral District No. 1 was a territorial electoral district in the Yukon Territory Canada. The electoral district was created in 1903.-1903 general election:...		Joseph Clarke Joseph Clarke Joseph Andrew Clarke was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council .-Early life:Clarke was born in...
		Alfred Thompson Alfred Thompson Alfred Thompson was a Canadian physician and politician.Born in Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, the son of James A. Thompson and Jane Thompson, Thompson was educated at a public school by private tutor and graduated from Dalhousie University with a degree of M.D.C.M. in 1898. He went to the Klondike...	Vacant
District No. 2 Yukon Electoral District No. 2 Yukon Electoral District No. 2 was a territorial electoral district in the Yukon Territory Canada. The electoral district was created in 1903.-1903 general election:...		John Pringle
		Max Landerville
Whitehorse Whitehorse (electoral district) Whitehorse electoral district was a territorial electoral district in the Yukon Territory Canada. The electoral district was created in 1903.-1903 general election:-1920 general election:-1922 general election:...		Robert Lowe
Bonanza				Richard Gillespie	Thomas Kearny
Klondike Klondike (electoral district) Klondike is an electoral district which returns a member to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon in Canada. It was the only seat won by the Yukon Party in the 2000 territorial election...				George Black
North Dawson				H.C. Macanlay	J.O. Lachappelle
South Dawson				Thomas O'Brien	John Grant