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vessels of the deepest draught. Mr. Rithet has been a Councillor and Mayor of the city of Victoria, as well as President of the British
Columbia Board of Trade, of whose council he is an honored and influential member.
Mr. Robert Ward, J. P., for the past four years President of the B. C. Board of Trade, started his commercial career in this city in 1871,
being at that time in the employ of Messrs. Welch, Rithet & Co. In 1881 Mr. Ward was running his own business, and soon the integrity and
ability of the firm gave them hold of large interests and many excellent agencies. Mr. Ward is agent for no less than six first-class
insurance companies. In 1879 he was appointed Consul for Sweden and Norway. He has been a member of the Board of Trade since its foundation ;
he is a Magistrate for the province, a Pilotage Commissioner, and Managing Director of the B. C. Corporation, limited.
Hon. Robt. Beaven was born at Leigh, Staffordshire, Eng., in 1836 ; was educated in Toronto, and came to this province in 1862. He was a
merchant in Victoria, and was a member of the Government of the province from December, 1872, until January, 1876. He was appointed a Gold
Commissioner in 1873, and became Minister of Finance in 1878. He was Premier of the province from June, 1882, until January, 1883, when he
resign-ed. He was prominently connected with the union movement in 1868, and is at present leader of the Provincial Opposition, having been
in the House continuously since 1871.
Dr. G. L. Milne was born in Morayshire, Scotland, in 1850, receiving his education at Meaford, Ontario, to which his parents came in 1857. He graduated at the Toronto School of Medicine in 188o ; has been Medical Health Officer and School Trustee for Victoria, being returned to the Legislature for this city at the election of 189o.
Mr. Alexander Roland Milne, Collector of Customs, is a native of Morayshire, Scotland, and is in his fifty-ninth year. He is one of the most polite and obliging gentlemen in the public service, nevertheless he is one of the most particular of men in requiring due observance of all the duties and obligations for which the law and departmental practice provide. Early in life Mr. Milne came
with his parents to Ontario, and some years later came out to this province in search of good fortune at the gold mines. In 1874 he entered
the service of the Canadian Government in the Department of Customs, rising to the position of Appraiser in 1885, being, in 1887, gazetted
one of the Board of Dominion Appraisers. In 1889 he was appointed to succeed Mr. Hamley in the Customs Collectorship at Victoria, where his
natural abilities, his thorough acquaintance with his duties, and his unremitting attention to business have gained for him the high
appreciation of the government and of the public. Probably Mr. Milne is one of the best posted men on this coast on the subject of seals,
which has caused so much friction and unpleasantness between the people of Canada and of the United States.
Mr. A. C. Flumerfelt, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, was born near Toronto, but spent his early life in the town of Co-burg. Having
settled in Winnipeg he, in 1875, established the first wholesale shoe house West of Toronto, that known as the firm of W. Higgins & Co.
Having withdrawn from that concern he opened a wholesale shoe business in Winnipeg in 1879, on his own account. In 1883 an amalgamation was
formed of his own ware-house and that of Ames Holden & Co., of Montreal, the business of Higgins & Co. being also acquired. Mr. Flumerfelt
arrived in Victoria in the interests of his firm in 1886, and has since remained, acquiring the confidence and esteem of his fellow business
men, by whom he was elected to various offices and finally to the Vice-Presidency of the British Columbia Board of Trade.
Postmaster Shakespeare was born at Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, England, in 1839. He came out here in January, 1863, and was for some
months engaged at Nanaimo in Mr. Dunsmuir's collieries. On coming to Victoria he had considerable business success, and served as a member
of the City Council for four years, becoming Mayor in 1882. He was President of the Mechanics' Institute, and has been for some years at
the head of the B. C. Fire Association. He was elected to the House ,of Com-
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