Charles William Digby Clifford (October 14, 1842 – May 10, 1916) was an Irish

Ireland

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-born miner, trader, hotel owner and political figure in British Columbia

British Columbia

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. He represented Cassiar from 1898 to 1903 and Skeena

Skeena (provincial electoral district)

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 from 1903 to 1907 as a Conservative

British Columbia Conservative Party

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 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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He was born in Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon

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, County Leitrim

County Leitrim

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, the son of Reverend R. S. Clifford and Harriet Young, and was educated in London

London

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. In 1888, he married Lucy Margaret McNeill. Clifford was a postmaster for the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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 at Hazelton

Hazelton, British Columbia

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 from 1885 to 1887; he was employed as a clerk there from 1887 to 1891 and at Fort Simpson from 1891 to 1896. He later owned a hotel and general store in Kitselas

Kitselas, British Columbia

Kitselas, also Kitsalas, is an unincorporated settlement, otherwise known as Kitselas Indian Reserve No. 1 of the Kitselas subgroup of the Tsimshian people lcoated on the Skeena River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Kitselas means "people of the village at the canyon" in the Tsimshian...

. In 1912, in partnership with Nels Anderson and John Walker "Jack" Patterson, he built the Nicholl Hotel. He died in Vancouver at the age of 73.