伝記
He was the brother of Captain Claud Troup and eldest son of W.H. Troup and grandson of Captain James Turnbull.
He started with his father on the Vancouver. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He commanded the steamer Wasp c1874 on the Vancouver route.
He entered the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. on the Upper Columbia as Purser and then as Acting Master of some of their vessels.
He commanded the Harvest Queen bringing her over Tumwater Falls.
He ran steamboats on the lakes of BC - several months on Kamloops Lake and Shuswap Lake.
He served on the Yosemite.
In 1896 he designed the sternwheel tug Trail.
He was appointed superintendent of water lines for Union Pacific and then was employed with Columbia & Kootenai Steam Navigation Co. at Nelson BC.
He joined the CPR B.C.L. & R.S. in February 1897 He commanded the Nelson.
He was the Manager of CPR BC Coast Steamships 1901-28.
He was buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC.
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- Musk, George (1981)
- Newell, Gordon (Ed.) (1966)
- Affleck, Edward L. (1978)
- Nobbs, Ruby M. (1998)
- Turner, R.D. (2001)
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
