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William Evans was a judge from Nelson, B.C.

William Sanford Evans was an economist.

A.M.D. Fairburn wrote and produced Victoria Calvalcade, a presentation sponsored by the Victoria Centennial Celebration Committee in 1943.

David Falconer was a school teacher at Williams Lake, B.C.

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Tony Farr was a researcher and B.C. Telephone Company historian.

Bruce Farris was a mill manager and late vice-president of MacMillan Bloedel.

Richard Charles Farrows conducted a survey in 1929 for the Water Rights Branch between Chilco Lake and Bishop River and between the Franklyn Arm of Chilco Lake and the Forks of the Southgate and Bishop Rivers.

Arthur Stanhope Farwell was a surveyor who worked out of Nelson and Victoria, B.C.

Charles Faulkner was a federal district engineer for B.C. and the Yukon. Faulkner worked on the Okanagan Flood Control Project.

Jane Fawcett was married to Thomas Lea Fawcett.

Jack Fillion was a resident of Stewart, B.C.

Robert Firth was a farmer in Victoria.

William Henry Fitzgerald was gold commissioner of Omineca District.

Aird Dundas Flavelle was born in 1888 in Lindsay, Ontario. In 1907 Flavelle came to British Columbia and joined a timber cruise party exploring and staking claims in the Powell Lake area for six months for the Adams-Powell Timber Co. Syndicate of Ontario. He then returned to Ontario to work in his father's wholesale produce and cold storage business. At the suggestion of R.J. Thurston he returned to British Columbia in 1912 and with Thurston, purchased J.S. Emerson's cedar mill lease at Port Moody, renaming it the Thurston-Flavelle Lumber Co. Their business expanded with the purchase of the Brunette sawmills in New Westminster in 1920 but after a fire that mill was sold in 1923. After cutbacks in the company's operation during the depression, business improved during the Second World War and in 1946 sales grossed over 2.5 million dollars. The company was reorganized in 1952 as Flavelle Cedar Ltd. and three years later it was sold to Canadian Collieries Resources Ltd. Aird Flavelle maintained numerous business associations, including a directorship with the M.A. Grainger Co., an advisory group to British capital investments in timber and lumber in B.C. He was also a Director of the Alberni-Pacific Lumber Co. In addition, Flavelle served the Dominion government as a committee member on various advisory committees. During World War 1 he served on the B.C. division of the Imperial Munitions Board. In 1917 Flavelle married Mary Elliott of Brampton, Ontario. His brother, W. Guy Flavelle, joined Thurston-Flavelle in its early years, and eventually he became a senior executive of Welwood of Canada Ltd., the purchasers of Canadian Collieries Resources Ltd. Aird Flavelle died in 1973.

John Thomas Fleming was proprietor of the Stanley Hotel in Stanley, B.C., and a prospector.

George E. Flynt was a resident of Victoria, B.C.

Arthur L. Ford was a government inspecting engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from 1909 to 1916.

Robert C. Fortune was a television broadcaster and producer.

Robert Foster was a marine engineer from Victoria, B.C.

Iver Fougner was born in Norway April 24, 1870. He lived in Minnesota but moved with other Norwegians to the Bella Coola Colony in 1894. He died in Bella Coola on July 25, 1947.

Samuel Stewart Fowler (also known as S.S. Fowler) was born in New York, and was a mining engineering graduate from Columbia University. He first worked in mining sites in South Dakota, Texas, Idaho and Colorado. Fowler relocated to British Columbia, ca. 1889-1890, and became superintendent of the smelting works at Golden, built in 1890 by the Golden Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada. Fowler supervised the province's mining exhibit at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and between 1896 and 1905 he helped on the Cascade water-power development.

Fowler married Frances Elizabeth Hedley on June 5, 1902.

In Nelson, Fowler worked as a consulting mining engineer for British interests including the London and British Columbia Goldfields Company, Limited and its associated companies, Whitewater Mines, Ltd. and Ymir Gold Mines, Ltd.

In 1905-1906, the Canadian Metal Company, Limited, which was French-controlled, acquired the Bluebell Mine and Pilot Bay smelter on Kootenay Lake. Fowler became general manager for the company, a position which he retained in conjunction with his consultant's practice and other managerial positions, which he gradually relinquished.

Sources indicate Fowler was responsible for the naming of the Bluebell mine location as “Riondel” in 1907, named for the president of the Canadian Metal Company, Edouard, Count Riondel. That company was reorganized and reformed in 1911 as the New Canadian Metal Company. Fowler continued as manager until 1921 when the company ceased operation of the Bluebell mine. In 1924, Fowler and B.L. Eastman formed a partnership, and leased the Bluebell mine until forced to close it in 1927. In 1931, Fowler and Eastman's equities in the Bluebell mine and options in the Riondel and Ainsworth area were acquired by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada. By 1948 that company had full control and began reviving and expanding operations at the Bluebell site.

Fowler, who also served as postmaster at Riondel, was a widely recognized figure in the professional community of mining engineers and metallurgists. He died at age 79, in Kaslo, on May 4, 1940.

Stanley Howard Frame was a surveyor who worked as a District Hydrometric Engineer for the Department of the Interior in Alberta, as Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Block in Alberta, and as a hydraulic engineer, B.C. Water Rights Branch, 1928-1947.

Keith Frampton was a surveyor working for the firm of Gore and McGregor in Victoria.

Thomas Samuel Francis was a resident of Victoria, B.C.