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Henry Lewis Frank was a farmer and highway foreman in Terrace, B.C.

John Williamson Frank joined the Health of Animals Branch of the B.C. Department of Agriculture in January 1905 and worked in the Kootenay, Boundary and Vancouver areas.

D.W. Fraser was an Hudson's Bay Company employee at Telegraph Creek and Fort St. James.

Dirk Fraser was a student at Vernon Preparatory School from 1938-1941 and at Magee High School in Vancouver from 1941-1943.

Simon Fraser was an explorer who travelled in the interior of B.C. and named the Fraser River.

S. Frauenthal owned a dry goods store in Yale, B.C.

Joshua Freeman was a ship's captain.

Cecil French was a Victoria-based local historian.

James G. French operated an animal menagerie at Victoria. It was originally located at Willows Beach, then Swan Lake and later in French Beach Provincial Park.

Ethel Freston lived with her parents at Metlakatla, B.C., in 1887.

Henry Fry was born in Devonshire, England in 1852 and came to Victoria in 1864 with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fry (Senior). The family went to Saanich and farmed for a few years, then returned to Victoria where Henry Fry went to work for McCutcheon and McCullum. At about age 20 he was articled to H.P. Bell. Upon becoming a civil engineer he went to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 1880s and stayed with them until 1885 when he came to Duncan. He lived there for a good many years while still keeping up his surveying. On 3 December 1896 he married Eleanor Brooke Edgson and moved to Chemainus. About 1907-1908 he was working for the government in the Chilcotin country. Fry died at Chemainus on 12 March 1912.

Edith M. Fulmer (formerly Leonard) was a nurse and inventor who was born in Salmon Arm and trained to be a nurse at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke. She worked at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver and invented the Peristaltic Therapeutic Apparatus.

Donald Gain was the editor of the religion page of the Victoria Times and Daily Colonist newspapers. He also reported on military and marine matters in Victoria.

R.H. Gaitskill was a hunter from Victoria, B.C.

William Alfred Galliher was a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament (MP). He had interests in mining development, mineral claims and real estate.

C.W. Gamble was an engineer at Ashcroft, B.C.

C.H. Gamsby was a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

James Gardiner made an exploration trip in 1875 from Telegraph Creek to Hazelton and from Hazelton via the Nass to Fort Simpson.

Walter Gardner was a log scaler based in Enderby, B.C., in 1889.

Alexander Garland was a haberdasher in Kaslo, B.C.

Francis C. Garrard was a lighthouse keeper on Lennard Island and a telegraph agent for Tofino.

C.M. Gascoyne was a resident of Victoria, B.C.

William Gay was a plumber in Vancouver.

Frank Gelsthorpe was employed at Dockyard in Esquimalt, B.C.

Harriet Gerry was a nurse for the Department of Indian Affairs in the Cariboo region during the 1940s.

Gladys Gesner was an exchange teacher from Nova Scotia.

Kenneth Gibbard owned property on Piers Island.

George Gibson was a wood carver who lived at Shawnigan Lake, B.C.

Eugene Giddings was a miner in the Barkerville area.