Career
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. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet. In 1876 Elliott became the fourth Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem"s government in a Motion of Number 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:.