Ross Bay Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

Some of the notable personalities among the more than 27,000 interred here are:

  • Billy Barker (1819–1894), frontiersman, prospector
  • Sir Frank Stillman Barnard (1856–1936), statesman
  • Robert Beaven (1836–1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Sir Matthew Begbie (1819–1894), First Chief Justice of British Columbia
  • Harlan Carey Brewster (1870–1918), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Emily Carr (1871–1945), painter
  • Nellie Cashman (1845–1925), nurse and gold prospector
  • Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (1823–1905) First BC Barrister and early Supreme Court Justice
  • Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922), artist
  • Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (1847–1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Theodore Davie (1852–1898), jurist, statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Edgar Dewdney Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, 1892-1897.
  • Amor De Cosmos (1825–1897), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Sir James Douglas (1803–1877), Hudson's Bay Co. executive, 1st Governor of British Columbia and 2nd Governor of Vancouver Island
  • James Dunsmuir (1851–1920), businessman, statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Andrew Charles Elliott (1828–1889), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Roderick Finlayson (1818–1892), considered the "Father of Victoria."
  • John Hamilton Gray (1814–1889), pre-Confederation Premier of PEI, a Father of Confederation and a BC Supreme Court Justice.
  • Byron Ingemar Johnson (1890–1964), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • Sir Richard McBride (1870–1917), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • James E. McMillan (????-1907), mayor of Victoria in 1872
  • William Henry McNeill, Master of the SS Beaver from which, in 1843, while at McNeill Bay, Governor Douglas located Fort Victoria. Port McNeill is named for him.
  • Joseph Despard Pemberton (1821–1893), Surveyor-General of Vancouver Island
  • Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959), painter
  • Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • John Robson (1824–1892), statesman, Premier of British Columbia
  • George Anthony Walkem (1834–1908) statesman, Premier of British Columbia

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