Ebenezer Brown
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Ebenezer Brown ({{circa|1824}} – June 5, 1883){{cite web |url=http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4E75D75/view/Deaths/find-adv%2B%20callnumber=%28%221883-09-075826%22%20%29%20AND%20microfilm=%28b13087%29%20%2B%2B%2B%2B/1 |title=Vital Event Death Registration |publisher=BC Archives |accessdate=2011-07-25 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} was an English-born wholesale merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented New Westminster from 1875 to 1878 and New Westminster City from 1878 to 1881 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
He was educated in England and came to British Columbia in 1858. A stonemason, he erected the border monument at the Point Roberts-Tsawwassen boundary.letter from John C. Brown, another former MLA, January 14, 1927, quoted in Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River, Denys Nelson, 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives, quoted in BC Names entry "Brownsville (former locality)"]
Political life
He served on the municipal council for New Westminster. Brown was president of the province's Executive Council (the cabinet) from February to September 1876.{{cite book |url=http://www.canadiana.org/view/32951/378/650/0 |title=The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1877 |year=1877 |page=376 |last=Mackintosh |first=Charles H |author-link=Charles Herbert Mackintosh |accessdate=2011-07-25}} He resigned his seat in the assembly in November 1881 due to poor health.{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf |title=Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 |publisher=Elections BC |accessdate=2011-07-25}} Another version from a fellow MLA says he retired because of conflict of interest issues relating to railway developments. Brown died two years later in New Westminster at the age of 59.
Brownsville across the Fraser River from New Westminster was named after Ebenezer Brown{{cite web |url=https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/54409.html |title=BCGNIS Query Results |publisher=Government of BC |access-date=2011-07-25 }} who built the first hotel there and also owned a wharf.{{cite news |url=http://www.fvhrs.org/newsl/Fall%202001.pdf |title=Brownsville: Once a key town in Surrey's Development; now a cornerstone in foreshore revitalization |page=2 |newspaper=Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society News |date=Fall 2001 |accessdate=2011-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328042853/http://www.fvhrs.org/newsl/Fall%202001.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-28 |url-status=dead }}
Electoral results
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References
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External links
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:English emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia
Category:Independent MLAs in British Columbia
Category:19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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