Legacy
A Vancouver school, Sir Matthew Begbie Elementary School, was also named in his honour.
Mount Begbie, the most prominent mountain seen from Revelstoke, was named in his honour. There are two other Mount Begbies in British Columbia; they are little more than hills although the one in the marshlands south of 100 Mile House has also given its name to the Begbie Summit, the highest point on the Cariboo Highway. There are also two lakes and a creek also named for Judge Begbie.
There are several statues located throughout Vancouver, one outside the Law Society of British Columbia and one outside the Law Courts at New Westminster, British Columbia.
(The family name Begbie originates in Scotland, where it is most common in the Edinburgh and East Lothian areas. Begbie is derived from the Old Norse personal name Baggi + Old Norse býr 'settlement'. The small hamlet of Begbie, can be found adjacent to the larger hamlet of Samuelston, near to the town of Haddington, East Lothian).
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)