Biography
He was the brother of Dr. Duncan Bell-Irving.
He was a British engineer and businesman.
He married Isabel del Carmen who was born in Santiago Chile in 1862.
He was trained as an engineer at Karlsruhe Germany.
He worked on the construction of the CPR west of Calgary.
He made money speculating on Vancouver real estate and in an import export grocery business.
He started a partnership with R.P. Patterson to charter the Titania and shipped the first cargo of tinned salmon to England.
In 1890 he took over the Garry Point Cannery from George Hobson & Co.
He then went into partnership with Captain R.G. Tatlow and they formed the Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co. in 1891. As a yachtsman he was the eighth Commodore of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club 1920-21.
He was the Chairman of the Burrard Inlet Sailing Club 1887.
He was the Vice-Admiral of the Pacific International Yachting Association 1920.
He was twice President of the Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the founders of the Vancouver Club.
He was elected as an Alderman of Vancouver in 1888.
He was the Chairman of the Civic Board of Works.
References
- Kluckner, Michael (1984)
- Annals of the RVanYC 1903-70
- Ross, Leslie J. (1979)
