Biography
He came with his parents to Toronto (Canada West) in 1855.
He was one of a part of "The Overlanders" who crossed the Canadian Praries in the Gold Rush in 1862.
He arrived in Granville in 1870 where he worked as a book keeper and assistant manager at the Hastings Mill.
He was the father of Henry O. Alexander.
In 1873 he served on the School Board.
In 1884 he was the Chairman of the Hastings Lierary Institute. Later he was Manager of the Hastings Mill on Burrard Inlet and was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor in the first municipal election in Vancouver in 1886.
He was elected as an Alderman of Vancouver in 1887.
He was a Justice of the Peace.
He was a Commodore of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.
Vessels Owned / Designed
Mermaid (part owner);
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Named Features
Alexander Street (Vancouver BC)
References
- Annals of the Royal Vancouver YC 1903-70
- Howay, F.W. (1914)
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie. (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press
- Walker, Elizabeth (1999)
- Francis, Dan (Ed.) (2000)
- Snyders, Tom and Jennifer O'Rourke (2001)
- James, Rick (Victoria Times Colonist Sunday, September 2, 2001)
