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Bushby, George Gordon

1867–

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Biografie

He was the son of Agnes Douglas and Arthur Thomas Bushby.

He was educated in England.

He served an engineering apprenticeship in San Francisco in 1883 and on his return joined the Dominion Government Department of Public Works.

In 1893 he became one of the founders of the Esquimalt Marine Railway Co. When the company built a marine railway in Vancouver about 1901 he went there to manage it.

He was the local manager of the B.C. Salvage Company and President of the Compressed Gas Company.

He owned Bushby Towing Co., Prince Rupert BC.

He was a keen yachtsman.

Referenzen

  • Annals of the RVanYC 1903-70
  • Howay, F.W. (1914)

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