Captain Henry Newsham Peers (1821 – 1864) was a Canadian fur trader, military officer and British Columbia pioneer.

Henry Peers, born de Linné, was a magistrate, Commissioner of Taxes, and graduate of Trinity College at Oxford University.

[2] Henry Newsham Peers entered the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich in south-east London, and thereafter left England for Montreal.

[3][4] He started his career in the Hudson's Bay Company with his brother Richard Augustus, who would become a fur trader and post manager.

[1] Throughout his career, Peers would become an apprentice clerk, port agent, elected representative in Vancouver County and chief trader for the HBC.

[6][7] During his time in politics, he launched a petition to Oregon, asking the Congress of the United States to confirm properties, educational policies and navigational facilities related to the trade on the Columbia River.

[8] In the same year, he discovered a new trading route from Kamloops to the Coquihalla River, bypassing the custom duties of the Americans on goods normally shipped to Fort Vancouver.

[14][4] In 1853, Peers achieved the rank of chief trader, having now a share in the company's profits, and was made captain under Gov.

[16][5] Around 1859, his father-in-law, chief trader James Murray Yale, provided him financing for a saw and grist mill, as he lived on a neighbouring property.

[5] Henry Newsham Peers died on March 27, 1864, at Saanich, British Columbia, and was buried at Ross Bay Cemetery.