Servicio militar
He was appointed as a Lieutenant RN.
He was appointed as a Commander RN.
In 1880-84 he worked at the Toronto Observatory with the Canadian Meteorology Service.
He took a voyage into Hudson Bay in the summer of 1884 in the D.G.S. Neptue. The goal was to find a terminus for a Hudson Bay Railway for shipping grain to Europe as an alternative to eastern shipping ports.