Frederic William Howay
{{Short description|Canadian historian, lawyer and jurist}}
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Frederic William Howay {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (November 25, 1867 – October 4, 1943), also spelled Frederick, was a Canadian historian, lawyer, and jurist.
Biography
Born in London, Ontario, Howay moved to British Columbia 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/Inventories/Descriptions/H.html|title=Frederic William Howay Map Collection|work=University of British Columbia}}
In 1933, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal.{{Cite web |title=Past Award Winners |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners#TyrrellMedal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629010729/https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners#TyrrellMedal |archive-date=June 29, 2024 |publisher=The Royal Society of Canada}} He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Historical Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?lang_id=1&page_id=148#TOC52|title=J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal citation|work=Royal Society of Canada}} In 1932, he was elected to the American Antiquarian Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/membersh.htm|title=Member Directory|work=American Antiquarian Society|access-date=2009-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011062803/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/membersh.htm|archive-date=2008-10-11|url-status=dead}} From 1922 to 1926, he was president of the British Columbia Historical Federation. From 1941 to 1942, he was president of the Royal Society of Canada. He also served as a member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, briefly serving as its interim chairman.{{cite book |year=1979 |title=Recognizing Canadian History: The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada |publisher=Parks Canada |location=Ottawa |isbn=0-662-50533-6 |at=p. 62, 130}}
In 1933, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of British Columbia.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites1.html|title=UBC Honorary Degree Citations|work=University of British Columbia}} Mount Judge Howay, north of Stave Lake, is named in his honour.{{cite book|title=British Columbia Place Names|url=https://archive.org/details/britishcolumbiap0000akri_w1q9|url-access=registration|author=Helen B. Akrigg|publisher=UBC Press|year=1997|isbn=0-7748-0637-0}}
He died in 1943 in New Westminster, British Columbia.
Selected works
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=8612&qryID=0b170c04-07bd-4c6c-97b9-449560510e73 British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 1]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=9094&qryID=1df94cee-d216-4c54-bf2d-d68ced7d9ef7 British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 2]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=9095&qryID=06a41b06-fcb6-4404-b390-b0f776737b8b British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 3 (Biographical)]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=9096&qryID=2ae7e06c-5f7f-42b5-b1ae-fd2b170e65dd British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol 4 (Biographical)] with Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield (S.J. Clarke, 1913)
- [https://archive.today/20120912170159/http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=1225&qryID=3f54e75f-80d4-4367-a6aa-307b9c987d58 The Early History of the Fraser River Mines] (C.F. Banfield, 1926)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=1188&qryID=f23bc06b-cd7d-48b4-811d-dd894c8d000b British Columbia: The Making of a Province]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (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 aboard the Argonaut from April 26, 1789 to Nov. 3, 1791 (The Champlain Society, 1940)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=1194&qryID=881194c2-2086-4ab3-9411-a91df42523a6 The Dixon-Meares Controversy]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y. 1969)
- [http://www.nosracines.ca/toc.aspx?id=1243&qryID=b3f3e34f-922d-401a-a10a-c26f5a3aa12e Early shipping in Burrand Inlet, 1863-1870]{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (s.n., s.l. 1937)
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Category:Judges in British Columbia
Category:Lawyers in British Columbia
Category:20th-century Canadian historians
Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers
Category:Dalhousie University alumni
Category:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Category:Writers from London, Ontario
Category:Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)