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Historic
Numbers
License Plates & their Owners from the "pre-Provincial"
Era
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Robert
Pim Butchart
Successful
manufacturer of "Portland" cement, he and
his wife Jenny founded Butchart Gardens in Victoria.
Issued Registration number 11,
May 14, 1904. |
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Honourable
William John Bowser
Attorney-General,
and one of the most important cabinet ministers in Richard
McBride's government, he also served as Premier from
Dec. 1915 to Nov. 1916.
re-Issued Registration number 404,
December 17, 1912 (would hold it till
May 13, 1918)
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Canadian
Pacific Railways Hotel, Vancouver
Issued Registration
number 511, July 31, 1909
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Coldstream
Estate Company Limited, Vernon
Development
of the Coldstream Ranch ignited the land boom that reshaped
the face of the Okanagan between 1892 to 1914. It was
owned by Lord Aberdeen, Governor General of Canada 1893
-1898.
Issued Registration number 1055,
July 14, 1910.
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Honourable
James Dunsmuir
Heir to the
Dunsmuir mining interests on Vancouver Island, Premier
of British Columbia from 1900 to 1902, and Lieutenant
Governor 1906 to 1909.
Issued Registration number 4518,
September 16, 1912.
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Society
A group representing
Russian Christians that initially settled in Saskatchewan
before migrating to BC in 1908.
Issued Registration number 4820
from the Grand Forks office on November 4, 1912 for
an Oscar Lear Truck. |
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Premier
Richard McBride
The first
native born British Columbian to become premier, his
Conservative government ruled from 1903 to 1915.
Issued Registration number 5021,
Janurary 27, 1913. |
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Photo Credits
Robert Pim Butchart: Union Club of British Columbia
John Bowser: Village of Rexton, New Brunswick
James Dunsmuir:
Doukhobor Society: Simon Fraser University
Richard McBride: Provincial Archives of British Columbia
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