James Dunsmuir

James Dunsmuir

James Dunsmuir (b July 8, 1851, Fort Vancouver – d June 6, 1920, Cowichan Bay, British Columbia) was a British Columbian industrialist and politician. Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir to his family's coal fortune. The Dunsmuir family dominated the province's economy in the late nineteenth century and were a leading force in opposing organized labour. Dunsmuir managed his family's coal business from 1876 until 1910 increasing profits and resisting efforts to unionize. In 1905 he sold his Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway to the Canadian Pacific Railway and in 1910 he sold his "Union Colliery of British Columbia".

Dunsmuir entered provincial politics in 1898 winning a seat in the provincial legislature and became Premier in 1900. His government attempted to resist popular pressure to curtail Asian labour and immigration not for humanitarian reasons but to ensure a cheap labour pool for business. It also promoted railway construction and accomplished a redistribution of seats to better represent population distribution in the province. Dunsmuir disliked politics and resigned as Premier in 1902. In 1906 he became the province's Lieutenant-Governor but retired in 1909 and lived out his years at the baronial mansion he had constructed at Hatley Park.

James Dunsmuir founded the town of Ladysmith, British Columbia. He is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, British Columbia. One of his eight daughters, Jessie Muriel, married, as her first husband, the couturier Edward Molyneux. His second-born son, James A. Dunsmuir, Jr., died in the sinking of the "RMS Lusitania" in 1915.

He invented the Scientific American and set up a telephone system in British Columbia.cite news
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References

*cite book
author = Reksten, Terry
title = The Dunsmuir Saga
publisher = Vancouver:Douglas & McIntyre
year = 1991
id = ISBN 0-88894-742-9
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url=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunsmuir#Studium_und_Unternehmensf.C3.BChrung
title=Wikipedia Deutsch

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