James W. Cockburn was a Canadian Conservative politician,and a father of Canadian Confederation.
Amor De Cosmos was a Canadian journalist,publisher and politician. He served as the second premier of British Columbia.
George Anthony Walkem was a British Columbian politician and jurist.
Andrew Charles Elliott was a British Columbian politician and jurist who was the fourth premier of British Columbia from 1876 to 1878.
Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC,referred to as A. E. B. Davie,was the eighth premier of British Columbia. He served in office from 1887 until his death in 1889.
Robert Beaven,son of James Beaven,was a British Columbia politician and businessman. Beaven moved to British Columbia from Toronto,where he had been educated at Upper Canada College,because of the gold rush. He entered business in Victoria,which was then the capital of the Colony of Vancouver Island. After the colony's union with British Columbia,Beaven became involved with politics as secretary of Amor De Cosmos' Confederation League which advocated that the colony enter Canadian Confederation.
William Smithe was a British Columbia politician and the seventh premier of British Columbia,from 1883 to 1887.
John Robson was a Canadian journalist and politician,who served as the ninth premier of British Columbia.
John Hamilton Gray,was a politician in the Province of New Brunswick,Canada,a jurist,and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He should not be confused with John Hamilton Gray,a Prince Edward Island politician in the same era.
Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie was a British lawyer,politician,and judge. In 1858,Begbie became the first Chief Justice of the Crown Colony of British Columbia in colonial times and in the first decades after British Columbia joined Confederation as a province of Canada.
Sir Anthony Musgrave was a colonial administrator and governor. He died in office as Governor of Queensland in 1888.
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman,office holder,and author.
Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau was a Canadian politician who served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. Prior to Canadian Confederation,he served as the leader of the Parti bleu in Canada East.
The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the 1866 merger of two British colonies,the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia. The united colony existed until its incorporation into Canadian Confederation in 1871 as the Province of British Columbia.
Sayward is a village located in the Sayward Valley on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia,Canada. It is about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) inland from Kelsey Bay on a spur from Highway 19.
John Sebastian Helmcken was a British Columbia physician who played a prominent role in bringing the province into Canadian Confederation. He was also the founding president of the British Columbia Medical Association.
Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease was a British-Canadian lawyer,judge,and politician,influential in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united Colony of British Columbia,and sat on the Supreme Court of that province for 26 years.
Alexander Rocke Robertson was a Canadian lawyer,judge,and politician.
James William Douglas was a Canadian who represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1875 until his retirement at the 1878 provincial election.
