Amor De Cosmos was a Canadian journalist,publisher and politician. He served as the second premier of British Columbia.
John Foster McCreight,was a jurist and the first premier of British Columbia.
The history of British Columbia covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization,the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations.
George Anthony "Boomer" Walkem was a British Columbian politician and jurist.
Andrew Charles Elliott was a British Columbian politician and jurist.
Theodore Davie was a British Columbia lawyer,politician,and jurist. He practised law in Cassiar and Nanaimo before settling in Victoria and becoming a leading criminal lawyer. He was the brother of Alexander Edmund Batson Davie,who served as premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889. Theodore Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1882. In 1889,he became attorney-general under Premier John Robson,and succeeded Robson as premier in 1892.
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.
Ross Bay Cemetery is located at 1516 Fairfield Road in Victoria,British Columbia,on Vancouver Island,Canada. Many historical figures from the early days of the province and colony of British Columbia are buried at Ross Bay.
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.
Frederick Seymour was a colonial administrator. After receiving little education and no inheritance from his father,Seymour was offered a junior appointment in the colonial service by Prince Albert. Seymour held positions in various British colonies from 1842 to 1863,when he returned to England.
The 1875 British Columbia general election was held in 1875. Many of the politicians in the House had served with the Legislative Council or Assembly or the Executive Council,or had otherwise been stalwarts of the colonial era - some supporters of Confederation,others not. Some were ranchers or mining bosses from the Interior,others were colonial gentry from the Island and New Westminster,and others direct arrivals from Britain,Ireland or "Canada",which was still considered a different place not only in the minds of the politicians but in the language used in Hansard during this period.
The Colony of Vancouver Island,officially known as the Island of Vancouver and its Dependencies,was a Crown colony of British North America from 1849 to 1866,after which it was united with the mainland to form the Colony of British Columbia. The united colony joined Canadian Confederation,thus becoming part of Canada,in 1871. The colony comprised Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands of the Strait of Georgia.
The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the amalgamation of two former colonies,the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia. The two former colonies were united in 1866,and the united colony existed until its incorporation into Canadian Confederation in 1871.
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866 that was founded by Richard Clement Moody,who was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific',who was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Prior to the arrival of Moody's Royal Engineers,Columbia Detachment,the Colony's supreme authority was its Governor James Douglas,who was the Governor of the neighbouring colony of Vancouver Island.
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.
The Legislative Council of British Columbia was an advisory body created in 1867 to the governor of the "new" Colony of British Columbia,which had been created from the merger of the old Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The new colony,like its predecessors,did not have responsible government,and while its debates and resolutions carried considerable weight,executive power remained in the hands of the governor,who at the time of the council's founding was Frederick Seymour.
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.
The Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island,sometimes House of Assembly of Vancouver Island,was the colonial parliamentary body that was elected to represent voters in the Colony of Vancouver Island. It was created in 1856 after a series of petitions were sent to the Colonial Office in London protesting the Hudson’s Bay Company’s proprietary rule over the colony. It was the first elected assembly in British North America west of Ontario. Although at first only handful of colonists met the voting requirement,and most of those that did were tied to the HBC,the franchise was gradually extended,and the assembly began to assert demands for more control over colonial affairs,as well as criticize colonial governor Sir James Douglas's inherent conflict of interest as both governor and Hudson Bay Company's chief factor.
David Cameron was a jurist,merchant,and manager operating across the British Empire. He was unsuccessful as a cloth merchant in Scotland and as a sugar plantation manager in Demerara,Guianas. He became a Hudson's Bay Company clerk in Nanaimo,British Columbia and then a judge in the Colony of Vancouver Island. In 1853,Cameron became the first Chief Justice of Vancouver Island,a position which he held until 1858. He served as a justice until his retirement in 1865.
