Victoria UELAC Founding Member: James Ferguson Armstrong, 1847-1930
Born in Quebec.
Worked for the B.C. Province as the Government Agent in Golden, Fort Steele and Cranbrook
Became the Provincial Chief Water Commissioner headquartered in Victoria.
Both James and brother Francis Patrick (1861-1923) are buried at Ross Bay Cemetery.
Loyalist Ancestor: Jesse Armstrong, 1745-1827, Lake Maskinonge, Quebec.
James Armstrong
B.C. Government Building in Cranbrook
Family portrait (James Ferguson Armstrong with his wife Gertrude and daughters Marjorie and Edith). Credit to Golden & District Historical Society / Golden BC Museum
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