Biography
He arrived on the Pacific coast in 1851.
He was an employee of the naval department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
He lived in Nanaimo.
He purchased a share in the schooner T.T. Stephens and changed her name to Nanaimo Packet, the schooner Merlin renamed as the Victoria Packet and the sloop Flora for the coasting trade.
He was master of the Nanaimo Packet carrying materials to Fisgard Island.
He owned a share in a new schooner, the Alpha in the coasting trade.
He later sold out and retired from the sea.
He was later involved in constructing and maintaining wharve for Robert Dunsmuir.
Named Features
Walker Rock (BC), Walker Hook (BC)
References
Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
