Harold Ernest Forster

Harold Ernest Forster was a rancher, miner and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Columbia from 1912 until his retirement at the 1916 provincial election as an Independent Conservative.

He was born in Ontario, but both his parents died before he was one year old, and he was raised by a grandmother in Galt, Ontario and uncles who lived near Carlisle, England. Forster travelled with Harold Topham, a British climber, during Topham's visit to the Selkirks in 1890. In 1912, he married Meda Hume.

Mount Forster, Forster Creek and Forster Pass were named after him.