One of eight Loyalist descendants that were Fathers of Confederation
Appointed a judge in British Columbia’s Supreme Court in 1873.
Gray was one of the few 19th-century public figures to oppose the discriminatory taxation and exclusion of Chinese immigration to Canada.
Only father of Confederation (excepting Amor de Cosmos) buried west of Ontario.
“Joseph Gray was born July 9, 1729. He was a loyalist and settled in Halifax, N.S. , and was a member of the firm Procter & Gray.” In Loyalists of Massachusetts by James Henry Stark, Boston, 1910.
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