Scott, Thomas Wilson

He served in both Canadian Pacific Steamships and the CN Lady ships prior to WW2.

He was an officer in the CP ship Duchess of Bedford when he became a landed immigrant to Canada in Quebec in May 1930.

He worked with the CPR in the 1930s.

He was retained by the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto to manage all the logistics for the visiting NATO navies (21 ships) to mark the opening of the the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959.

He was appointed as a Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant RCNR (With seniority dated 22/11/1938). (Mobilized for World War Two service 02/09/1939).

He was appointed as a Paymaster Lieutenant (RCNR).

He was appointed as a Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander (Temp.) (RCNR) (With seniority dated 01/01/1943). (He was demobilized.) (He entered the RCN in 1951c) He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander (S) RCN(R).

He was appointed as a Commander (S) RCN(R). (He was released.)

Graham W.S. Scott reports that "He was Naval Secretary to Rear Admiral G.C. Jones and liaison officer to the 3rd Battle squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Bonham-Carter stationed in Halifax, in the early part of the war.

He was also assigned to do the logistics of travel planning for Churchill's movements related to the Quebec Conference and his Washington visit.

He subsequently became Ocean Transport Officer in Halifax and in that capacity was back and forth to London for Convoy planning conferences with the British Admiralty throughout the latter half of the war. After the war he was called into active reserve in his Commander rank during the Korean War to do special projects. His own business in Nova Scotia was seasonal so the navy used him from November until April mostly from 1950-55.

They included managing the overhaul of the systems in the supply depot at HMC Dockyard, organizing and preparing HMCS Cape Scott as a training and maintenance facility in the dockyard, serving as a special supply officer in HMCS Magnificent on her voyage to be paid off in England, and preparing HMCS Cape Breton as a fleet supply vessel."