Ebenezer Brown

Ebenezer Brown (c. 1824 – June 5, 1883)[1] was an English-born wholesale merchant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented New Westminster from 1875 to 1878 and New Westminster City from 1878 to 1881 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

He was educated in England and came to British Columbia in 1858. A stonemason, he erected the border monument at the Point Roberts-Tsawwassen boundary.[2]

  1. ^ "Vital Event Death Registration". BC Archives. Retrieved 2011-07-25.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ letter from John C. Brown, another former MLA, January 14, 1927, quoted in Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River, Denys Nelson, 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives, quoted in BC Names entry "Brownsville (former locality)"]