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Amelia Douglas (1 January 1812 – 8 January 1890) was of mixed Irish, French and Cree heritage who was the spouse of the first colonial governor of British Columbia, when the Colony of British Columbia was established. Raised as the daughter of a trapper and his First Nations wife, she spent her early childhood moving frequently between fur trading stations in Manitoba. When her father was promoted to agent of Fort St. James in what would later become British Columbia, she met a mixed-race trapper of Scottish and Bajan Creole heritage, who would become her husband. As her husband progressed from clerk to Chief Factor and governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island and later the Colony of British Columbia, she served as a nurse and midwife at his various posts. She gave birth to thirteen children, raising six to adulthood. Her children were brought up in the Victorian European style, though she insured that they were schooled in the cultural heritage of their Cree ancestors.
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