Noting B.C.’s First Governor

Re Black History Month, February

Another person who should be noted is Sir James Douglas. Son of John Douglas, a Scots planter, and Mary Ann Tefler, a Creole of mixed ancestry from Barbados, James Douglas was born in Demerara, now Guyana. He rose through the ranks of the Hudson’s Bay Company and became British Columbia’s first governor, holding office from 1858 to 1864.