Everything about Frederick Seymour totally explained
Frederick Seymour (born
Belfast,
Ireland,
6 September 1820 – died
Bella Coola,
British Columbia 10 June 1869) was a
colonial administrator. He served as the second
Governor of the
Colony of British Columbia from
1864 to
1866, and the first governor of the
United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia from
1866 to
1869.
Seymour was the son of Henry Augustus Seymour, who was himself the illegitimate son of
Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford. Upon the latter's death in 1822, Seymour's father was forced to surrender his
civil service position and property, and leave
Ireland for
Belgium. In 1842,
Prince Albert helped secure a position for Seymour in the colonial service. For the next twenty years, he served in various positions in a series of colonies mired in political and economic difficulties:
Van Diemen's Land,
Antigua,
Nevis,
British Honduras, and the
Bay Islands.
In 1864, Seymour attained the apogee of his colonial career as successor to
Sir James Douglas as Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. He inherited an administration deeply in debt, and a restless population of British colonists, demanding
responsible government. Seymour continued with his predecessor's project of building wagon roads into the
gold mining districts of the
Cariboo, and helped put down a First Nations insurrection at
Bute Inlet. He was, however, resistant to pressure to amalgamate British Columbia with the
Colony of Vancouver Island in order to help consolidate the revenue and debts of the two colonies and reduce administration costs. Eventually he relented, and the colonies were united in 1866. Seymour was named governor of the
United Colonies.
The next three years were unhappy ones for Seymour, as he battled a succession of illnesses, and faced an increasingly restless population. After the
Canadian Confederation in
1867, sentiment turned strongly towards the colony seeking admission as a
province of
Canada. Seymour was lukewarm to the proposal, but regained much of the goodwill he'd lost by successfully improving both the economy and infrastructure of the colony, culminating in the construction of a
graving dock at
Esquimalt.
His term slated to end in 1869, Seymour made one last journey as governor to the
Nass River, on the northwest coast of the colony, to mediate a dispute between First Nations tribes. While returning, he became ill with
dysentery and died at
Bella Coola.
Places named for Seymour
- Mount Seymour is a peak, a provincial park, and ski hill located in the Coast Mountains northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia. There are two other, much lower, Mount Seymours; one on Quadra Island, offshore from the town of Campbell River, the other on Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
- There are two watercourses named the Seymour River. One flows from Mt. Seymour to Burrard Inlet, and the other into Shuswap Lake.
- Seymour Arm is an arm of Shuswap Lake, British Columbia.
- Seymour Inlet is located in a maze of inlets on the north flank of Queen Charlotte Strait.
- Frederick Sound are located on the northern British Columbia coast opposite the Queen Charlotte Islands.
- There are two bands of mountains named the Seymour Range in British Columbia. One is located on Southern Vancouver Island, and the other north of Shuswap Lake in the upper reaches of the Seymour River, at the head of which there's a Seymour Pass.
- Seymour Street is a major north-south artery in downtown Vancouver, bounded to the south by the Granville Street Bridge, and to the north by Cordova Street.
- Seymour Landing on Seymour Bay, on the southeast coast of Bowen Island, just west of West Vancouver.
- Seymour Island, an islet in Sunderland Channel on the north coast of Hardwicke Island, in the Johnstone Strait area between Vancouver Island and the mainland to the north of it.
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