Biographie
He was a brother of William Heater.
He began his career in sealing in the North Atlantic, cod fishing on the Grand Banks and then in deep sea service.
He was twice shipwrecked on the Atlantic coast. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He arrived on the BC coast about 1892.
He began sealing in the schooner Rosie Olsen.
He was Master of the Ainoko when she was seized by the US authorities on July 22, 1893.
He was Master of the schooner Markland (120 tons) He was Master of the sealing schooners Sapphire, Penelope, Jessie, Rosie Olsen, and Allie E. Alger. After the Pelagic Sealing Treaty of 1910 he went halibut fishing operated a herring saltery and fish bait plant at Riley's Cove BC in Sydney Inlet. The plant was built on a log raft and the workers lived in a floating camp.
He used the schooner Favorite to service this operation.
Navires possédés / conçus
Favorite (masts removed, rigging dismantled);
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Références
- Nicholson, George (1962)
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
- Gibson, Gordon with Carol Renison (1980)
