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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 ...
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 ...
Governors of British Columbia (1858–1866) Term Sir James Douglas: 1858–1864 Frederick Seymour: 1864–1866 United Colony of British Columbia.
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 ]
MLA for Victoria City [c] [d] (1907–1915) McBride ministry: Led first partisan administration. During First World War, the provincial government purchased and took possession of two submarines to defend the province from the threat of German attack; quickly transferred by order of the federal government to the Royal Canadian Navy in August 1914.
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.
Victoria incorporated as a city on August 1, 1862. 1 Thomas Harris: 1862 1865 2 Lumley Franklin: 1865 1866 3 William J. Macdonald: 1866 1867 4 James Trimble: 1867 1870 5 Alexander R. Robertson: 1870 1871 (3) William J. Macdonald (2nd term) 1871 1871 6 Richard Lewis: 1872 1872 7 James E. McMillan: 1872 1873 8 James D. Robinson: 1873 1873 9 ...