He served as a boy in sailing ships in 1873.
He was a Master Mariner from 1883-83.
He came to British Columbia in 1893.
He founded the Vancouver Ice and Cold Storage Co. in 1893.
He was an owner of the Bitter Creek Mining Co.
Parker, C.W. (Ed.) (1911)
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