Person Profile

Wallace, Frederick William

1886–1958

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Biography

He was an author, editor and publisher.

He was the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men a now-classic 1924 book about the last days of the Age of Sail in Maritime Canada.

He edited the monthly journal Canadian Fisherman for forty years, 1919 to 1960.

Military Service

He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RNR.

He was the sailing master of a British Q-Ship in World War One. (He was released.)

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