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Dr. R.W.W. Carrall, 1839-79

Of Ontario Loyalist stock, Carrall settled at Williams Creek in 1867, practising medicine and encouraging the depressed mining industry. He became the cariboo representative on the colonial...

Of Ontario Loyalist stock, Carrall settled at Williams Creek in 1867, practising medicine and encouraging the depressed mining industry. He became the cariboo representative on the colonial Legislative council in 1868. On the 1870 Confederation delegation to ottawa, he was the Canadian Government's great ally. When British Columbia joined Canada in 1871, he was appointed one of the new province's new senators.

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