British Columbia Notables

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Location: British Columbia

This page is designed to help members of the British Columbia Project keep track of people who belong in the British Columbia Notables categories. This page is designed to showcase those profiles for notable people of British Columbia which meet the project's standards. To find profiles which need to be improved before they can be added to this page, please check the sub-pages to this page:

Notable political figures:

• Colonial_British_Columbia
• British Columbia Lieutenant Governors
• British Columbia Premiers

Other Notables:

• British Columbia Activists
• British Columbia Artists
• British Columbia Athletes
• British Columbia Authors
• British Columbia Aviation Figures
• British Columbia Business Figures
• British Columbia First Nations Figures
• British Columbia Community Namesakes
• British Columbia Inventors
• British Columbia Journalists
• British Columbia Legal Figures
• British Columbia Military Figures
• British Columbia Other Notable People
• British Columbia Pioneers
• British Columbia Performing Artists
• British Columbia Politicians
• British Columbia Religious Figures
• British Columbia Social Scientists

On these pages you will find other profiles, along with notes about what improvements need to be made to each. Before a profile is added to this page, it should be on the "Gold" level of one of the pages above.

The table below is sortable on any column. To sort by a column, click on the column header for that column.

Name	Notable As
Dave Barrett	Premier of British Columbia
Robert Beaven	Premier, Mayor of Victoria
Adam Bell	Union activist
Bill Bennett	Premier
B.C. Binning	Architect and painter
Raymond Burr	Actor
John Callister	Pioneering settler in Granville Townsite (later Gastown), and then Hastings Townsite.
Henry James Cambie	Land surveyor
Emily Carr	Painter
Wells Wintemute Coates	Architect, designer and writer
Raymond Collishaw	Pilot and Decorated Canadian Airman
Henry Crease	Lawyer and Supreme Court Judge
Josephine Crease	Painter
Lady Sarah Crease	Painter
Susan Reynolds Crease	Painter and activist for women's rights
A.E.B. Davie	Premier
Theodore Davie	Premier, Chief Justice
James Doohan	Actor
Arthur Erickson	Architect and city planner
Frank Forward	Inventor
Terry Fox	Athlete and cancer research activist
Helen Emma (Gregory) MacGill	Canada's first woman judge
John Hendry	Saw Mill owner
George Hunt	Social Scientist, Ethnographer
John Ireland	Actor
Boss Johnson	Premier of British Columbia
Harold Lamb	Photographer and painter
Molly Joan (Lamb) Bobak	Painter
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill	Aircraft designer and Women's rights advocate
Duncan McMillan "Mickey" MacKay	Hockey player
Doris (Meisel) Shadbolt	Museum curator, author and jewellery designer
Susan (Moir) Allison	Memoirist
John Morton	Pioneering settler of Vancouver, one of Three Greenhorns.
Sophie Pemberton	Painter
Charles Edward Redfern	Mayor of Victoria
Alexander Robertson	Pioneering settler and Lawyer and Judge
Jack Leonard Shadbolt	Painter
Gordon Appelbe Smith	Painter
Amor De Cosmos (William A. Smith)	Premier of British Columbia
Montague Tyrwhitt-Drake	Mayor of Victoria, Supreme Court Judge
Betty Lou (Wark) Fox	Cancer research activist
Vera Olivia (Weatherbie) Mortimer-Lamb	Painter
Charles Woodward	Businessman

Resources

• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Wikipedia