Nicholson, George Salier Willis

He travelled to Australia as a boy where he worked on the big sheep stations and poisoned wild rabbits.

He went on to work on banana trading boats, visiting Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and other tropical islands in the Pacific.

In 1911 he lived and worked on the west coast of Vancouver Island for 30 years.

He worked in Zeballos BC as the Postmaster, Justice of the Peace and Coroner, Marriage Commissioner and was the commercial agent for Standard Oil of BC Ltd. and the Zeballos Trading Co. Ltd.

He was appointed as an Honorary Chief of the Ehatisaht First Nation and they presented him with a 35' totem pole which is now in the collection of the Campbell River Museum.

He was the author of the best selling book "Vancouver Island's West Coast 1762-1962".

In World War One, he joined the 67th Western Scots, a Victoria unit. While in the army he was appointed as a Major and was awarded the Military Cross after fighting at Vimy Ridge and being wounded at Arras.

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