传记
In 1841 he worked in a a lwyers office. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He learned river navigation on the Columbia River.
He built the first steamer in BC, the Governor Douglas in 1859 and then the Colonel Moody.
He was a Director of the Victoria Steam Navigation Co. but sold out to Captain William Irving in 1860.
He emigrated to Australia where he became a pioneer in navigation on the Murray River.
参考文献
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
- Hacking, Norman R. (British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. X No. 1 January 1946) Steamboating on the Fraser in the Sixties
