Biografía
He went into the merchant service in the East India trade.
He joined the Hudson's Bay Company as Third Officer in the bark Cowlitz under Captain Weynton in 1846.
He arrived in Victoria in the spring of 1847.
He was then stationed ashore at Fort Simpson before returning to England.
He was appointed as Second Officer in the HBC chartered bark Tory on her voyage to Victoria and home to the UK via China 1850-52.
He was appointed as First Officer of the HBC steamer Otter leaving England in January 1853 to Victoria.
In 1856 he was a Mate in the Beaver.
He served as the Pilot on the Massachusetts on the Fraser River.
He commanded several HBC vessels engaged in the coasting trade: Beaver 1859-60, Otter, Labouchere and Enterprise (running to New Westminster), Princess Louise.
He married the daughter of Captain E.E. Langford of Colwood in London England in 1870 and they settled in James Bay, Victoria.
In 1885-1892 he was the Marine Agent of the Department of Marine and Fisheries in Victoria April 1887 to September 1892.
He was the Shipping Master for the Hudson's Bay Co. at Victoria from September 1892 to March 1905.
Lugares nombrados
Herbert Reef (BC), Lewis Channel (BC), Lewis Island (BC), Lewis Point (BC), Lewis Rock (BC), Lewis Rocks (BC)
Referencias
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
- Lyons, Cicely (1969)
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Delgado, James P. (1993)
- Rogers, F. (1992)
