伝記
He received a Crown Grant in the New Westminster District with James Normansell and another in 1870 on his own.
He then engaged in civil engineering.
He was the Astronomer of the Vancouver Island Exploration Expedition in 1864. Afterwards he surveyed the route for the proposed Collins Western Union Overland Telegraph to Alaska and Siberia and on to Europe.
He became manager of the Hudson's Bay Company store in Esquimalt and later he was the City Engineer of Victoria.
軍歴
He served in the Crimean War.
He was a Second Corporal Royal Engineers who was a member of the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers in British Columbia 1858-63. enlisted in the RE at the time of the Crimean War (1854-156). After training on the Ordnance Survey, he served with the International Commission on the Russian Turkish frontier.
He was part of Captain Parson's initial group of RE and served the duration of his time in the Colony as "Astronomical Observer and Computer".
He spent the majority of his time at the RE Observatory established in the Camp.
命名された地物
Leech River (BC), Leechtown (BC)
参考文献
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Woodward, Frances M. (1974)
- www.royalengineers.ca ↗
