dnesday, May 4, 1966

TERRACE ~Omineca”” HERALD, TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

CENTERNIAL MEMO
bir James Douglas: was knight.
[by Queen Victoria in 1064, the

Mair he retired to his. James Bay
minsion.at Victoria. He died thera| ,

M1877. He was the first governor

lithe mainland colony of British
- jumbia, the second governor af

mcouver Island. -

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A CENTENNIAL FEATURE

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CLEMENT FRANCIS CORNWALL

_ A group of mounted English
gentlemen burst from the trees
near. Ashcroft one spring day in
1868 galloped madly through the
meadows riding to the hounds
in the tradition of John Peel.

‘Their quarry howev2r, was
hardly as British as his pursu-
ers. Instead of a bushy-tailed
fox, they chased a skulking coy-
__ ote, In the Colonies, they reason-

ed, “one must’ make do.”

The man who began a 20-year

period of coyote misery here
‘was Clement Francia Cornwall.
He is remembered in history
more for his political pursuits
of the hounds. He rose to be-
come lieutenant-governor. .
- Born in 1836 in Gloucester.
shire, England, he was a clergy-
man's son. He studied law before
coming wit), his brother Henry .
to the cyionies in search . of
wealth anti adventure.

He was about 26 when they
crossed the Atlantic to Panama
where they had the choice of
crossing the Isthmus by train for :|:
$25, by cattle car for $10 or by
foot for $5, They headed for the
Cariboo gold fields via Harrison
Lake and Lillacet River. But the
call of the land was stronger and-
they pre-empted and. purchased
vast holdings, became cattlemen
and built an English-style manor
house. They named it Ashcroft
after their English family home.

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They built.a water wheel and
tan a sawmill and a flour mill
and in time opened a roadhouse
and Introduced English tea and
tutors te the frontier society. -
. Cornwall hecame a member of
the B.C. Legislative Council in
1964, representing Hope, Yale
and Lytton. He married a vicar's
daughter in Victoria and after

came a senator.
He was appointed Lieutenant-

tween 1881 and 1886, In 1889 he
was appointed county judge of
Cariboo. He retired in 1906 and
died four years later in Victoria.
Many descendants Hve in the

province today.

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