Arrived in Victoria when it was a wide-open mining camp in 1862. Took part in both the Leech River and the Cariboo Gold Rush
Was elected to the Provincial Legislature in 1878 as the member from Saanich.
He was an official of an agricultural association, secretary of his school district, and a justice of the peace.
Owned and operated 300-acre farm in North Saanich
Loyalist Ancestor: John McIlmoyl, 1706-1796
Married to daughter of early Penisula pioneer Mary Ann Simpson who was born in Esquimalt..

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