Biographical Data
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Title	Captain (MM)
Official Number	(nk)

 

Birth	00/00/1920	Death	00/00/2005
Place	Port Renfrew	Place	(nk)
Area	BC	Area	BC
Country	Canada	Country	Canada

 

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Biography

In 1938 he served as a Deckhand (under Captain George MacFarlane) and then Mate on the Solander (under Captain Walter Larsen) towing logs out of Nitinat Lake BC. He was qualified as a Master Mariner. While serving in the Solander he participated in the salvage of the engine from the Varsity that eventually went into the Nitinat Chief. He served in the Nitinat Chief as Engineer. With his brother Dan he purchased the Solander and towed for J.H. Todd Fisheries 1944-1952.

 

Military Service
In 1942 he served as an Able-Seaman RCNR in the Royal Canadian Navy Fishermen's Reserve (Fishermen's Reserve Section). (He was released.)

 

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References
Email (Robert J. Harvey QC to Dusty Rodes 20/11/2003);
Last update
2012-08-16 20:56:12

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