Chartres Brew (31 December 1815 – 31 May 1870) was a Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia, later a province of Canada.

Brew's name was conferred on two mountain summits in British Columbia, both named Mount Brew. The higher one at is located just south of the Fraser Canyon town of Lillooet, and which is the second-highest in the Lillooet Ranges after Skihist Mountain. The other is just east of Likely, British Columbia in the Cariboo district, , adjacent to Quesnel Lake.

Chartres Brew

References

Ormsby, Margaret. "Chartres Brew." In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. IX. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1976, 81-3.

Chartres Brew

External links

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1815 births

1870 deaths

Lawyers in British Columbia

Judges in British Columbia

Pre-Confederation British Columbia people

19th-century Canadian civil servants

People from Corofin, County Clare

Gold commissioners in British Columbia

Canadian police chiefs

British Auxiliary Legion personnel

Royal Irish Constabulary officers

Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges

Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia

Members of the Legislative Council of British Columbia

Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) judges

Lawyers from County Clare

Police officers from County Clare

Chartres Brew