Biography
He was the son-in-Law of Sir James Douglas.
He was a civil engineer with he CPR and a BC Land Surveyor.
He served as the City Engineer of Victoria in the 1884-86.
He was a shareholder in the Vancouver Improvement Company.
In 1887 he was a City Councillor in the City of Victoria James Bay Ward.
He alienated section 12 west of Toquart Bay on 13/04/1892.
He worked on the Malahat Highway.
He was engaged in the Alaska Boundary Survey of 1904.
He was in charge of the locating of the Malahat Highway.
He was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery.
Named Features
Harris Point (BC)
References
- Annual Reports of the Corporation of Land Surveyors of the Province of British Columbia
- Mallandaine, Edward (1887)
- Adams, John. (1983)
- Walker, Elizabeth (1999)
