James William Douglas (June 1, 1851[1][2] – November 7, 1883[3]) was a Canadian who represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1875 until his retirement at the 1878 provincial election.
[5] James had been born in British Guiyana to a Scottish planter father and a free woman of colour.
Amelia was the Anglo-Métis daughter of William Connolly, fur trader, and his Cree wife; she grew up at the Hudson's Bay Company forts managed by her father.
In 1877, Douglas married Mary, the daughter of Andrew Charles Elliott.
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