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The following is a list of the lieutenant governors of British Columbia.Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in British Columbia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1871, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Vancouver Island in 1849, although without the same executive powers as governors had.
Trutch was the first Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia following Confederation, a position he retained from 1871 to 1876. Following his tenure as lieutenant governor, Trutch was appointed a "Dominion agent for British Columbia", and helped to oversee the construction of the CPR in the province. He left this office in 1890 and returned to ...
First lieutenant governor of the Province of British Columbia, Sir Joseph William Trutch KCMG, 1871–1876. The first British settlement in the area was the Colony of British Columbia, of which the first lieutenant governor was Richard Clement Moody, who had previously served as the first governor of the Falkland Islands.
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Oct 3, 2007 · Walter Stewart Owen. 1973-78. John Robert Nicholson. 1968-73. George Randolph Pearkes. 1960-68. Frank MacKenzie Ross. 1955-60. Clarence Wallace.
Colonel Richard Clement Moody was born in 1813 in the United Kingdom. He joined the British Army in 1831 and served in a number of locations, including the West Indies, Malta, and Canada, before being appointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia in 1858. He was also a member of the Royal Engineers, a corps of the British Army ...
Jun 17, 2018 · 1 / 2 Joseph Trutch was a British surveyor who came to B.C. in the 1850s and served as chief commissioner of lands and works. He was the first lieutenant-governor of B.C., after playing a key role ...
The Friends of the Government House Gardens Society. The Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Awards. The Lieutenant Governor’s BC Journalism Fellowship. The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Role of Lieutenant Governor. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and the City of Kamloops. T̓łaḵwagila – Chief Bill Cranmer.
