fixtures Dr John Sebastian Helmcken and Edgar Fawcett, and Spencer’s long-time Methodist associate Noah

employed John Robson* as editor, and the two men worked hard to ensure that democratic reform accompanied British Columbia’s entry into the new nation

HELMCKEN, JOHN SEBASTIAN, physician, politician, and HBC chief trader; b

John Langton* and James Wicks Dunsford in 1849. Langton described Boyd, when rafting logs to Quebec, as “a restless being who can keep himself