Initial Composition
At the time of the Council's creation, its members were:
- Executive Council
- Arthur N. Birch - Colonial Secretary
- H.P.P. Crease - Attorney-General
- W.A.G. Young - Acting Treasurer
- Joseph W. Trutch - Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works
- Wymond Ogilvy Hamley - Collector of Customs
- Magistrates
- Thomas L. Wood - Acting Solicitor-General
- Henry Maynard Ball - Magistrate, Cariboo West
- Chartres Brew - Magistrate, New Westminster
- C.F. Cornwall - Magistrate, Thompson River District
- W.G. Cox - Magistrate, Cariboo East
- W.J. Macdonald - Magistrate, Victoria
- C.S. Nicol - Magistrate, Nanaimo
- Peter O'Reilly - Magistrate, Kootenay
- E.H. Sanders - Magistrate, Yale and Lytton
- Elected members
- Amor de Cosmos - Victoria
- J.S. Helmcken - Victoria
- Joseph D. Pemberton - Victoria
- John Robson - New Westminster
- R.T. Smith - Columbia River and Kootenay
- J.J. Southgate - Nanaimo
- Edward Stamp - Lillooet
- G.A. Walkem - Cariboo
- George Wallace - Yale and Lytton
Elected members were actually appointed by the Governor and not mandated by their election, but appointed "in deference to the wishes of the people". George Wallace, the representative for Yale and Lytton, resigned his seat before the first session and a by-election was held which selected F.J. Barnard as his replacement. All members, including elected ones, had the right to use "the Honourable" before their name.
Other members included:
- George Phillippo
The council was abolished in 1871 when British Columbia became a province.
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