Victor Williams (Canadian Army officer)

Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour Williams CMG (1867 – December 12, 1949) was a Canadian general in the First World War and later the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.

"[3] Two years into his studies he was withdrawn from the college at his parents' request and entered service in the North-West Mounted Police.

In 1899 he went to South Africa, serving as a major and lieutenant-colonel in command of 'B' Squadron of the Canadian Mounted Rifles during the Second Boer War.

Williams was promoted brevet colonel for his overseas service and appointed commandant of the Royal School of Cavalry in Toronto, Ontario.

During the war he served on the general staffs of Field Marshal Sir John French and the British II and III Corps.

Mount Williams (2730 metres) in the Canadian Rockies on the border of Alberta and British Columbia was named in his honour in 1918.