Frederic William Howay (November 25, 1867 – October 4, 1943), also spelled Frederick, was a Canadian historian, lawyer, and jurist.

Biography

Born in

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, Howay moved to

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

as a child. After attending school in New Westminster, Howay wrote his Provincial Teachers' exam in 1884 in Victoria, British Columbia. He spent three years teaching at schools in Canoe Pass and Boundary Bay. In 1887, he studied law at Dalhousie University and received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1890. He was called to the British Columbia bar in 1891. In 1907, he was appointed a Judge of County Court of New Westminster. He retired in 1937. In 1933, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Geographical Society and the

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. In 1932, he was elected to the

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. From 1922 to 1926, he was president of the

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. From 1941 to 1942, he was president of the Royal Society of Canada. He also served as a member of the

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, briefly serving as its interim chairman. In 1933, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the

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. Mount Judge Howay, north of

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, is named in his honour. He died in 1943 in

New Westminster New Westminster (colloquially known as New West) is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capi ...

, British Columbia.

Selected works

''British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 1''
with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
''British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 2''
with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
''British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 3 (Biographical)''
with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
''British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 4 (Biographical)''
with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
''The Early History of the Fraser River Mines''
(C.F. Banfield, 1926)
''British Columbia: The Making of a Province''
(The Ryerson press, 1928) * ''Builders of the West: A Book of Heroes'' (Ryerson Press, 1929) * ''The Hawaiian Islands'' with Frank Alfred Golder and George Verne Blue (Captain Cook Sesquicentennial Commission, 1930) * ''The voyage of the New Hazard to the Northwest coast, Hawaii and China, 1810-1813'' with Stephen Reynolds (Peabody museum, 1938) * ''British Columbia and the United States'' with Henry Forbes Angus and Walter Noble Sage(The Ryerson Press, 1942) * ''The journal of Captain

James Colnett James Colnett (1753 – 1 September 1806) was an officer of the British Royal Navy, an explorer, and a maritime fur trader. He served under James Cook during Cook's second voyage of exploration. Later he led two private trading expeditions that ...

aboard the Argonaut from April 26, 1789 to Nov. 3, 1791'' (The Champlain Society, 1940)
''The Dixon-Meares Controversy''
(Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y. 1969)
''Early shipping in Burrand Inlet, 1863-1870''
(s.n., s.l. 1937)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howaty, Frederick 1867 births 1943 deaths Judges in British Columbia Lawyers in British Columbia 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Dalhousie University alumni Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Writers from London, Ontario Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association