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Fisher (family)

  • 1075
  • Family

The Fisher family lived at Metchosin, B.C.

Flavelle (family)

  • 1077
  • Family

The Flavelle family were residents of Port Moody, B.C.

Flavelle, Aird Dundas, 1888-1973

  • 1078
  • Person
  • 1888-1973

Aird Dundas Flavelle was born in 1888 in Lindsay, Ontario. In 1907 Flavelle came to British Columbia and joined a timber cruise party exploring and staking claims in the Powell Lake area for six months for the Adams-Powell Timber Co. Syndicate of Ontario. He then returned to Ontario to work in his father's wholesale produce and cold storage business. At the suggestion of R.J. Thurston he returned to British Columbia in 1912 and with Thurston, purchased J.S. Emerson's cedar mill lease at Port Moody, renaming it the Thurston-Flavelle Lumber Co. Their business expanded with the purchase of the Brunette sawmills in New Westminster in 1920 but after a fire that mill was sold in 1923. After cutbacks in the company's operation during the depression, business improved during the Second World War and in 1946 sales grossed over 2.5 million dollars. The company was reorganized in 1952 as Flavelle Cedar Ltd. and three years later it was sold to Canadian Collieries Resources Ltd. Aird Flavelle maintained numerous business associations, including a directorship with the M.A. Grainger Co., an advisory group to British capital investments in timber and lumber in B.C. He was also a Director of the Alberni-Pacific Lumber Co. In addition, Flavelle served the Dominion government as a committee member on various advisory committees. During World War 1 he served on the B.C. division of the Imperial Munitions Board. In 1917 Flavelle married Mary Elliott of Brampton, Ontario. His brother, W. Guy Flavelle, joined Thurston-Flavelle in its early years, and eventually he became a senior executive of Welwood of Canada Ltd., the purchasers of Canadian Collieries Resources Ltd. Aird Flavelle died in 1973.

British Columbia. Ministry of Women's Programs and Government Services

  • 108
  • Government
  • 1991

In 1991 the Ministry of Government Management Services was renamed the Ministry of Women's Programs and Government Services (OIC 500/1991). The ministry was disestablished later in 1991 and replaced by the newly established Ministry of Women's Equality and the Ministry of Government Services (OIC 1377/1991).

Fleming, John Thomas

  • 1083
  • Person

John Thomas Fleming was proprietor of the Stanley Hotel in Stanley, B.C., and a prospector.

Flewin (family)

  • 1085
  • Family

W.R. Flewin and family were residents of Port Simpson, B.C.

Flynt, George E.

  • 1086
  • Person

George E. Flynt was a resident of Victoria, B.C.

Ford, Arthur L.

  • 1088
  • Person

Arthur L. Ford was a government inspecting engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from 1909 to 1916.

Forest Grove Women's Institute

  • 1089
  • Corporate body

The Forest Grove Women's Institute was established in the Cariboo District in 1938.

British Columbia. Ministry of Government Services

  • 109
  • Government
  • 1991-1996

In 1991 the Ministry of Women's Programs and Government Services was disestablished and replaced by the newly established Ministry of Women's Equality and the Ministry of Government Services (OIC 1377/1991). Some functions were also transferred to the Ministry of Government Services from the disestablished Ministry of Provincial Secretary. In 1996 Ministry of Government Services was also disestablished (OIC 197/1996). Its functions were dispersed among the Ministry of Attorney General (OIC 198/1996); Ministry of Employment and Investment (OIC 200/1996); Ministry of Environment, Land and Parks (OIC 201/1996); Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations (OIC 202/1996); Ministry of Labour (OIC 204/1996); and Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture (OIC 206/1996).

Forestry Discussion Club

  • 1091
  • Corporate body

The Canadian Institute of Forestry Vancouver Island Section was earlier known as the Forestry Discussion Group and the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers, Victoria Section.

Forin (family)

  • 1092
  • Family

The Forin family lived in Belleville, Ontario.

Fort St. John Farmers' Institute

  • 1096
  • Corporate body

The Fort St. John Farmers' Institute represented farmers and agricultural interests in the Fort St. John area of the Peace District of B.C.

Fortune, Robert C.

  • 1099
  • Person

Robert C. Fortune was a television broadcaster and producer.

Vancouver Island (Colony). Office of the Surveyor General

  • 11
  • Government
  • 1859-1871

The first Surveyor General for the Colony of Vancouver Island was appointed in 1859 under the name Colonial Surveyor. Prior to that, the affairs of the colony were also the affairs of the Hudson’s Bay Company and were administered by the chief factor (James Douglas) and employees of the company. The name was changed to Surveyor General by Royal Warrant in 1861. The first Surveyor General was Joseph Despard Pemberton who was originally hired as Colonial Surveyor and Engineer for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Victoria in 1851. In 1859, when his contract with the company expired and the Hudson’s Bay Company surrendered the Colony of Vancouver Island to the British government, Pemberton was appointed as Colonial Surveyor for the colony. In 1861, Pemberton received a royal warrant from Queen Victoria naming him as Surveyor General for the Colony of Vancouver Island. He served in that position until 1864 during which time his assistant, Benjamin W. Pearse, served as Acting Surveyor General when Pemberton was absent. Pemberton resigned his post in 1864 and Pearse continued as Acting Surveyor General until 1866 when Vancouver Island was united with the Colony of British Columbia. The Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor General for the Colony of British Columbia was responsible for Vancouver Island from 1866 until 1871 when the Colony of British Columbia joined confederation as a province of the Dominion of Canada.

British Columbia. Dept. of Industries

  • 110
  • Government
  • 1919-1937

The Dept. of Industries was established in 1919 with the enactment of the Department of Industries Act (SBC 1919, c. 34). Prior to that, the Bureau of Statistics compiled data on tourism, trade and industry for the Attorney-General. The mandate of the Dept. of Industries was to investigate matters of economic importance, to encourage industry, to collect and publish statistics, and to develop trade in the province. The minister and deputy minister, who was also the industrial commissioner, conducted surveys, carried out research in utilization of natural resources, conducted special investigations into industrial problems, and administered the Industrial Development Fund.

In 1937, the functions of the Economic Council in the Dept. of Labour and the Bureau of Information in the Dept. of Finance were brought together with the functions of the Dept. of Industries to form a new department, the Dept. of Trade and Industry (Dept. of Trade and Industry Act, SBC 1937, c. 73).

Fougner, Iver

  • 1101
  • Person
  • 1870-1947

Iver Fougner was born in Norway April 24, 1870. He lived in Minnesota but moved with other Norwegians to the Bella Coola Colony in 1894. He died in Bella Coola on July 25, 1947.

Fowler, Samuel Stewart

  • 1102
  • Person
  • 1860-1940

Samuel Stewart Fowler (also known as S.S. Fowler) was born in New York, and was a mining engineering graduate from Columbia University. He first worked in mining sites in South Dakota, Texas, Idaho and Colorado. Fowler relocated to British Columbia, ca. 1889-1890, and became superintendent of the smelting works at Golden, built in 1890 by the Golden Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada. Fowler supervised the province's mining exhibit at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and between 1896 and 1905 he helped on the Cascade water-power development.

Fowler married Frances Elizabeth Hedley on June 5, 1902.

In Nelson, Fowler worked as a consulting mining engineer for British interests including the London and British Columbia Goldfields Company, Limited and its associated companies, Whitewater Mines, Ltd. and Ymir Gold Mines, Ltd.

In 1905-1906, the Canadian Metal Company, Limited, which was French-controlled, acquired the Bluebell Mine and Pilot Bay smelter on Kootenay Lake. Fowler became general manager for the company, a position which he retained in conjunction with his consultant's practice and other managerial positions, which he gradually relinquished.

Sources indicate Fowler was responsible for the naming of the Bluebell mine location as “Riondel” in 1907, named for the president of the Canadian Metal Company, Edouard, Count Riondel. That company was reorganized and reformed in 1911 as the New Canadian Metal Company. Fowler continued as manager until 1921 when the company ceased operation of the Bluebell mine. In 1924, Fowler and B.L. Eastman formed a partnership, and leased the Bluebell mine until forced to close it in 1927. In 1931, Fowler and Eastman's equities in the Bluebell mine and options in the Riondel and Ainsworth area were acquired by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada. By 1948 that company had full control and began reviving and expanding operations at the Bluebell site.

Fowler, who also served as postmaster at Riondel, was a widely recognized figure in the professional community of mining engineers and metallurgists. He died at age 79, in Kaslo, on May 4, 1940.

Frame, Stanley Howard, 1878-1973

  • 1103
  • Person

Stanley Howard Frame was a surveyor who worked as a District Hydrometric Engineer for the Department of the Interior in Alberta, as Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Block in Alberta, and as a hydraulic engineer, B.C. Water Rights Branch, 1928-1947.

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