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Pacific Marine Pilots of British Columbia 1858–1958
by Captain Hill Wilson 2016
Captain John Calvin Foote – a Master Mariner and one of the early British Columbia Marine Pilots (Photograph from Hill Wilson collection)
This is a compiled list of all the known appointees who served as Marine Pilots on the British Columbia coast from colonial days to 1958. Almost without exception these are all Master Mariners and therefore carry the title of "Captain" before their names.
- Allen, Edward Boswell – 1945
- Allix, Arthur Trenton Gorring – 1958
- Anderson, Avery – 1911
- Backie, Daniel Sutherland – 1948
- Bader, Robert William – 1958
- Balatti, John Americo (Mickie) – 1955
- Barberie, John – 1921
- Batchelor, Robert Alex – 1910
- Bebbington, Thomas – 1889
- Bendrodt, James Peter – 1890
- Bennett, Eric Kenneth M. – 1950
- Boden, John Allen (Jackie)) – 1954
- Boyce, William John (Billy) – 1929
- Boyce, William Ogilvie – 1958
- Boyd, William John – 1927c
- Brewster, Clive Ritchie – 1935
- Brewster, Gilbert Grant – 1954
- Bridgman, Edward Charles – 1901
- Broderick, William – 1859
- Browne, John Russell – 1945
- Bruce, John William – 1955
- Bucknam, Samuel W. – 1891
- Butler, James Edgar (Edward) – 1907
- Caldwell, John (Iain) – 1953
- Cameron, Alexander – 1934
- Campbell, John Archibald – 1937
- Carter, F.S. – 1911
- Chambers, Alexander John – 1865
- Christensen, Andrew – 1912
- Christensen, James Albert – 1876
- Christie, Robert John – 1956
- Clements, W. – 1881
- Clinton, Daniel – 1929
- Colbourne, John F. – 1934
- Coles, Heber George – 1945
- Cooper, James – 1879
- Cox, William – 1903
- Craddock, John Edward – 1958
- Davenport, Wilfred (Bricks) – 1954
- Dawe, Samuel – 1924
- Daykin, Edward – 1953
- Denis, John S. – 1947
- Docherty, George Seymour – 1949
- Duncan, Mungo – 1950
- Dyer, (?) – 1883
- Edwards, John Franklin – 1919
- Elfert, John Ritchie – 1928
- Ettershank, William M. (Billy) – 1877
- Evans, F.W. – 1912
- Evans, Harold James – 1958
- Farley, Patrick Smith – 1953
- Flood, James F. – 1935
- Flood, John Joseph – 1929c
- Foellmer, Gustav – 1929
- Foote, John C. – 1907
- Ford, Lyman H. – 1913
- Gardiner, William – 1859
- Gaudin, James – 1884
- Georgeson, Arthur – 1944
- Georgeson, Edward – 1935
- Gilbert, Arthur James – 1932
- Gilley, H.L. – 1933
- Glaholm, John William – 1889
- Glide, Harry – 1858
- Goss, John – (perhaps the same as Joe Gosse)(Year nk)
- Gosse, Arthur Hamilton – 1945
- Gosse, Josiah (Joe) – 1903
- Gosse, Walter Allan – 1937
- Gough, Albert Elliott – 1953
- Gray, (?) – 1875(?)
- Green, Calvin Hayworth Gilbert – 1952
- Green, Vernon Ventrice – 1953
- Guns, Thomas Salter – 1916
- Harrap, Robert Thomas – 1953
- Harris, Charles Israel – 1910
- Hicks, Robert – 1878
- Higgs, Burt Cushing – 1953
- Highet, William Young – 1948
- Holmberg, Walter K. – 1951
- Holmes, Peter – 1878
- House, Cyril James Eldridge – Unlicenced
- Houston, Charles – 1865
- Hunter, James Adam – 1935
- Hunter, Stanley George – 1948
- Ingalls, Alton Mawray – 1933
- Ingalls, Rexford Wallace – 1956
- Ingalls, Robert Medley – 1930
- Johnson, Bernard Leitch (Barney) – 1913
- Johnson, William – 1893
- Johnstone, Andrew – 1932
- Jones, Harry Robson – 1892
- Jordan, Ernest Forfar – 1929
- Kelly, Robert – 1910
- Kenney, G. – 1954
- King, George – 1879
- Kirk, James – 1873
- Landheim, Ernest – 1939
- Lewis, Alfred Elmer – 1929c
- MacDonald, George – 1910
- Mcdonald, William McLeod – 1889
- Major, Charles George – 1879
- MacKinnon, Donald (Daniel) – 1936
- Manson, Thomas – 1922
- Mayers, Frederick Fritz – 1925
- Mayers, Joseph George – 1934
- McAlister, Angus – 1887
- McIntosh, James – 1873
- McKay, Bernard Raymond – 1945
- McKay, Edward Lewis – 1936
- McKay, John Lewis Daniel – 1960
- McKernon, John – 1929c
- McKiel, Robert Esdale – 1906
- Mackenzie, Duncan – Year
- McKinnon, Alexander – 1869
- McLeese, Robert Roy – 1953
- McMullen, Howard Arthur – 1958
- McManus, Patrick Francis – 1936
- McNeill, John Alexander – 1945
- McNeill, Robert William – 1948
- McNeill, William Robert (Billy) – 1923
- McQuarrie, Lachlan Frank – 1947
- Menten, Robert C. – 1923
- Meyer, William – 1890
- Moody, Charles – Year
- Morehouse, Walter Scott – Year
- Morrison, Daniel – 1881
- Morrison, Patrick Norman – 1958
- Mounce, William Watson – 1937
- Myers, Wesley – 1884
- Newby, John – 1891
- Noel, James Ewing – 1922
- Ogden, Alan Whittaker – 1938
- Olsen, William – 1951
- Owen, William David – 1899
- Pamphlet, Thomas – 1881
- Park, John J. – 1921
- Parsons, H. – 1916
- Patterson, Donald (Dan)) – 1901
- Pearson, Albert – 1936
- Peck, T.E. – 1876
- Pengelly, Garfield – 1952
- Pike, Moses Henry – 1859
- Potts, B.S. – 1930
- Quintal, Robert John – 1956
- Ramsay, John (James)) – 1876
- Ramsey, John (James)) – 1873
- Rankin, James Archibald – 1947
- Raymur, James Arnold – 1879
- Reardon, Joseph Robert – 1904
- Reveley, Frederick – 1874
- Rippon, Albert Henry – 1934
- Robarts, George William – 1907
- Robertson, Harold Langhorne – Year
- Roberts, T.W. – 1900
- Robertson, George Winram – 1889
- Rodgers, Andrew – 1881
- Rogers, J.S. – 1894
- Rogers, J.W. – 1906
- Ross, William – 1949
- Rudlin, George – 1876
- Sabiston, John Flett (Jr.) – c1881
- Sabiston, John Flett (Sr.) – 1867
- Saunders, Frank Taunton – 1911c
- Scott, William – 1876
- Shadforth, Hubert George – 1920
- Shadforth, Percy – 1919
- Sharp, Robert – 1883
- Simpson, Gordon Hunter Yale – Year
- Sinclair, Andrew – 1929
- Smart, Walter Wayland – 1952
- Smith, Charles Barber – 1929
- Snoddy, Summersgill G. – 1922
- Sorensen, Owen Julle – 1952
- Spier, Oswald Brian (Buster) – 1957
- Springer, Benjamin – 1883
- Stanger, Robert William Douglas – 1954
- Stephens, Harry Francis – 1952
- Stephens, Percival Leslie – 1949
- Stratford, Frank Campbell – pre-1923
- Stratford, Harold Haslem Reginald – 1946
- Thomson, Lawrence (Larry) – 1916
- Thomson, Thomas – 1922
- Thompson, John T. – 1878
- Thompson, William – 1884
- Titcombe, John S. – 1860
- Uldall, Hans Mikkelsen – 1928
- Uldall, Michael Camillo – 1950
- Unwin, Frank Ernest – 1945
- Urquhart, Donald – 1879
- Wait, W. – 1881
- Warren, Arthur Joseph – 1953
- Wearmouth, Cecil Wylam (Kingfish) – 1916
- Weinberg, Jack Leonard – 1955
- Whiteley, William H. – 1911
- Wingate, Walter – 1929
- Woods, John Douglas Allen – 1951
- Wooster, William S. – 1911
- Wright, Thomas – 1865c
- Yates, Albert Francis – 1900
The Author Captain Hill Wilson is a Master Mariner and the author of the book The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast: The first century 1858-1958. He is a retired Marine Pilot himself and was at one time President of the British Columbia Coast Pilots Ltd. in the mid-1980s. He retired in 1992 as the senior pilot after 48 years at sea.
To quote from this article please cite:
Wilson, Captain Hill (2016) Pacific Marine Pilots of British Columbia 1858–1958. Nauticapedia.ca 2016. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Pacific_Pilots.php
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