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unusual facts about Gold Commissioner


Thomas Elwyn

After serving for five months as the Chief Constable of Yale, Governor James Douglas made him Assistant Gold Commissioner of Lillooet.


William Pinchbeck

In 1860, during the Cariboo Gold Rush, Pinchbeck accompanied Gold Commissioner Philip Henry Nind to Williams Lake to create a local government and bring law and order to the area.


see also

Archibald Clunes Innes

He was later an assistant gold commissioner and magistrate at Nundle and later police magistrate at Newcastle, New South Wales.

John Allison

John Fall Allison (1825–1897), pioneer settler, justice of the peace and Gold Commissioner in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada

Lake Innes Ruins, Port Macquarie, New South Wales

In 1853 he abandoned Lake Innes House and accepted employment as assistant gold commissioner and magistrate at Nundle and later police magistrate at Newcastle, where he died on 29 August 1857.