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James Douglas Taking the Oath at Fort Langley as First Governor of BC, AD 1858.1925. Oil on canvas. After the British Parliament in 1858 created the Crown Colony of British Columbia, Douglas was assigned as governor and was asked to resign as Chief Factor of the western portion of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Crown did not renew the company's ...
The following is a list of the governors and governors general of Canada. Though the present-day office of the Governor General of Canada is legislatively covered under the Constitution Act, 1867 and legally constituted by the Letters Patent, 1947, the institution is, along with the institution of the Crown it represents, the oldest continuous and uniquely Canadian institution in Canada ...
Governors of British Columbia (1858–1866) Term Sir James Douglas: 1858–1864 Frederick Seymour: 1864–1866 United Colony of British Columbia.
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866 that was founded by Richard Clement Moody, [1] who was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific', [2] who was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.
The first building in the area used specifically as a governor's residence was Cary Castle, built in 1860 by George Hunter Cary and purchased five years later by the British Crown for use as an official residence for the Governor of Vancouver Island, with Arthur Kennedy, CB, being the first occupant.
Richard Blanshard MA (19 October 1817 – 5 June 1894) was an English barrister and first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island from its foundation in 1849 to his resignation in 1851. Biography [ edit ]
The new province was divided into two parts: Canada West (the former Upper Canada) and Canada East (the former Lower Canada). [22] Governor General Lord Elgin granted ministerial responsibility in 1848, first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada. In the following years, the British would extend responsible government to Prince Edward Island (1851 ...
Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office. William Hall, becomes the first Nova Scotian and the first Black person to win the Victoria Cross. [2] The all-Black Victoria Pioneer Rifle Company is formed to defend British Columbia.