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Balcolm, G.W. Sprott

1850–1925

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Biography

(He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He lived at Victoria BC.

He started in the sealing trade in the schooner Dora Sieward.

He was master of the schooner Walter L. Rich.

He took her to the coast of Japan in 1895.

References

Victoria City Directory (1908)

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