Biographical data

Biographical Data
Painter, Edward Petchell Photo Credit: Unknown

Biographical Data

Painter, Edward Petchell

Photo Credit: Unknown

Title	Shipwright (RNCVR)
Official Number	(nk)

Birth	11/05/1887	Death	05/12/1960
Place	Vancouver	Place	Campbell River
Area	BC	Area	BC
Country	Canada	Country	Canada

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Biography
He apprenticed in Vancouver BC at Vancouver Shipyards. He was a master boat builder who had apprenticed at Vancouver Shipyards at the age of fourteen. At the outbreak of WWI he was a naval engineer in Vancouver, BC. He worked as a shipwright during the First World War. He opened a boatyard in Port Alberni BC and married June Barclay in 1921. She was born in Kelowna BC. They moved to Campbell River BC in 1922 where he worked as a boat builder. He started a wooden row boat building company and designed and built the small clinker-built fishing craft of yellow cedar used in fishing the Tyee for the Tyee Club of British Columbia. He pioneered the sports fishing industry at Campbell River BC.

Biography

He apprenticed in Vancouver BC at Vancouver Shipyards. He was a master boat builder who had apprenticed at Vancouver Shipyards at the age of fourteen. At the outbreak of WWI he was a naval engineer in Vancouver, BC. He worked as a shipwright during the First World War. He opened a boatyard in Port Alberni BC and married June Barclay in 1921. She was born in Kelowna BC. They moved to Campbell River BC in 1922 where he worked as a boat builder. He started a wooden row boat building company and designed and built the small clinker-built fishing craft of yellow cedar used in fishing the Tyee for the Tyee Club of British Columbia. He pioneered the sports fishing industry at Campbell River BC.

Military Service
He was appointed as a Shipwright RNCVR. (He apparently also functioned as a navy diver.) (He was demobilized.)

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Anecdotes
Janice Wilkin reports "The establishment of the Tyee Club in the 1920s by several men to encourage fishing in the area, along with the comfortable accommodations at Painter’s resulted in the visits of many famous people. The Painters particularly remembered the visit of the King and Queen of Siam in 1931. In the late 1940s the family sold the lodge. Tragically the original building and its contents were destroyed by fire in 1985, but was later rebuilt in the same location."

Anecdotes

Janice Wilkin reports "The establishment of the Tyee Club in the 1920s by several men to encourage fishing in the area, along with the comfortable accommodations at Painter’s resulted in the visits of many famous people. The Painters particularly remembered the visit of the King and Queen of Siam in 1931. In the late 1940s the family sold the lodge. Tragically the original building and its contents were destroyed by fire in 1985, but was later rebuilt in the same location."

References
Email (Janice Wilkin, Projects Coordinator, Campbell River Genealogy Society - Nauticapedia 13/09/2017);
Last update
2017-09-14 00:00:00

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Painter, Edward Petchell