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William Wasbrough Foster
Major-General William Wasbrough Foster DSO CMG VD (October 1, 1875 - December 2, 1954) was a noted mountaineer, Conservative Party politician, business man, and chief constable in British Columbia, Canada in addition to his distinguished military career.
==Early career and the First World War==
Known as Billy to friends and family, Foster was born in Bristol, England. He studied engineering at Wycliffe College before emigrating to British Columbia in 1894, where he became involved in the lucrative lumber business. He served with the Canadian Pacific Railway as a superintendent and police magistrate in Revelstoke, manager for the Globe Lumber Company on Vancouver Island, President of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly, and Minister of Public Works prior to the Great War.〔() Colonel Foster was elected MLA The Islands electoral district in a by-election held 6 December 1913, following 'A. E. McPhillips' resignation upon an appointment to the Court of Appeal.〕 Foster was an avid mountaineer, and was on the first expeditions to climb Mount Robson and Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan. Foster served as the president of the Alpine Club of Canada and has a mountain on Vancouver Island named in his honour, Mount Colonel Foster. He was also an honorary initiate of the BC Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at the University of British Columbia.
In World War I, he fought in the Somme and Vimy Ridge battles, and reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and awarded the DSO. He was twice wounded and Mentioned in Despatches five times.
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