Biographical Data
Butler, James Edgar Photo Credit: Unknown

 

Title	Captain (MM)
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Birth	00/00/1861	Death	25/12/1950
Place	Weymouth	Place	Oak Bay
Area		Area	BC
Country	Nova Scotia	Country	Canada

 

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Biography

He went to sea working for W.D. Lovitt, sailing out of Weymouth to Europe and the USA. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He arrived in the Pacific as mate of the ship Antwerp. He was appointed as master of the tug Pilot. He was then Master of the Isobel and then the tug Alexander. He commanded the Joan for the Dunsmuirs. (He was licenced as a Pilot in the Victoria District in December 1894.) In 1907 he was later appointed as a pilot in the Nanaimo Pilotage District. He was part owner of the pilot boats D.W. Gordon and Dawadena. (He was retired c1916).

 

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References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast;
Last update
2019-03-09 00:00:00

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