Cariboo (provincial electoral district)

Cariboo was one of the twelve original electoral districts created when British Columbia (B.C.) became a Canadian province in 1871. Roughly corresponding to the old colonial electoral administrative district of the same name, it was a three-member riding until the 1894 election, when it was reduced through re-apportionment and became a two-member riding. It became a single-member riding for the 1916 election, then briefly regained a second member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in 1986 before its abolishment in 1991.

It produced many notable MLAs, including George Anthony Boomer Walkem, third and fifth holder of the office of premier of British Columbia and one of the first representatives elected from the riding; John Robson, ninth premier of B.C.; and Robert Bonner, a powerful minister in the W. A. C. Bennett cabinet, and later CEO of MacMillan Bloedel and BC Hydro.