District James Orr, Cariboo East District Walter Shaw Black, Cariboo West District Members 1864–1865 Arthur Nonus Birch, Colonial Secretary and Presiding Member Henry Pering Pellew Crease, Attorney General Charles William Franks, Treasurer Wymond Ogilvy Hamley, Collector of Customs Chartres Brew, Magistrate. New Westminster Peter O'Reilly, Magistrate Cariboo Henry Maynard Ball, Magistrate, Lytton Andrew Charles Elliott, Magistrate, Lillooet John Carmichael Haynes, Magistrate, Osoyoos and Kootenay Joshua Homer, New Westminster District Clement Francis Cornwall, Hope, Yale and Lytton District Henry Holbrook, Douglas and Lillooet District George Anthony Walkem, Cariboo East and Quesnel Forks District Walter Moberly, Cariboo West and Quesnelmouth District Members 1866 Henry Maynard Ball, Acting Colonial Secretary and Presiding Member Henry Pering Pellew Crease, Attorney General Charles William Franks, Treasurer Joseph Trutch Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor General Wymond Ogilvy Hamley, Collector of Customs Chartres Brew, Magistrate. New Westminster Peter O'Reilly, Magistrate Kootenay Andrew Charles Elliott, Magistrate, Lillooet John Carmichael Haynes, Magistrate, Osoyoos and Kootenay Joshua Homer, New Westminster District Clement Francis Cornwall, Hope, Yale and Lytton District Henry Holbrook, Douglas and Lillooet District George Anthony Walkem, Cariboo East and Quesnel Forks District Robert Smith, Cariboo West and Quesnelmouth District Supreme Court In 1858 the British Government sent over Matthew Baillie Begbie as Chief Justice for the colony. Although trained at Lincoln's Inn he had never practised law, but soon published a Rules of Court and a timetable of sittings. He held the post, under consecutive administrative regimes, until his death in 1894. See also Former colonies and territories in Canada Territorial evolution of Canada after 1867 List of Governors of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Alaska boundary dispute References Sources Further reading 1866 disestablishments in North America Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866) British North America Former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas States and territories established in 1858 1858 establishments in the British Empire Former colonies in North America 1866 disestablishments in the British Empire 1858 establishments in North America States and territories disestablished in 1866