Biografie
He was taken to England at the age of one year when his mother died.
He was educated at Rugby and studied Mining Engineering at the Derby School of Mines.
He then worked for a number of years in Australia before mobving to Washington Territory to join his brother Ted.
He moved to Vancouver island in 1883.
He had a mine on Mount Sicker (Mount Sicker & British Columbia Development Co., Ltd.).
He provided timbers for the E&N Railway.
He married Mary Jean Dunsmuir at Fairview 01/07/1885. His father-in-law had taken over his mill by 21/01/1889.
He purchased 19 acres of land on the waterfront between Victoria and Esquimalt.
He subdivided the land and constructed Mount Adelaide on one of the lots.
He was defrauded by a business partner, Francis Sydney Bourchier of $50,000. c1895 he became bankrupt.
In 1900 he was the Manager of the Scottish Copper Mines Syndicate of British Columbia, Ltd.
Benannte Orte
Crofton (BC)
Referenzen
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Reksten, Terry (1991)
