Owen Forrester Browne
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Owen Forrester Browne
| Owen Forrester Browne | |
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 Captain Owen Forrester Browne |
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| Born | New Westminster, British Columbia |
| Died | 1948 New Westminster, British Columbia |
| Occupation | steamship captain |
| Spouse | Margaret Seymour |
| Parents | Owen Wamsley Browne and Teresa Aponi |
Owen Forrester Browne was a paddle steamer captain in British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada. He was born in New Westminster and worked on the lower Fraser and Yukon River sternwheelers before coming to the upper Fraser River in the early 1900s.
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Career
Owen Forrester Browne began work on the upper Fraser River in 1906 piloting the pioneer sternwheeler Charlotte. Because of his familiarity with the river and his skill as a swift water pilot the BC Express Company hired him to pilot their first sternwheeler, the BX.[1]
Browne skippered the BX for her entire career from May 13, 1910 until August 1919 when she sank in the Cottonwood Canyon carrying 100 tons of sacked cement bound for Soda Creek that had been intended for building the Deep Creek Bridge of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.[2]
After he left the Fraser, Browne piloted the Northland Echo on the Athabasca River in Alberta.
Family
In 1915, Browne married Margaret Seymour of South Fort George, daughter of the locally famous, Granny Seymour, and they had four sons and five daughters.[3] One of Browne's daughters was named Tito who married Ranford Messer in 1952 and 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. One of Messer's daughters was Colleen Messer, who married Bruce Holbrook and had 2 daughters, Stephanie and Sasha.
Browne retired in New Westminster, where he died in 1948.[3]
See also
Further reading
- Koppel, Tom (1995). Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Whitecap Books. pp. 104. ISBN 1-55110-295-1.
- Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing. ISBN 0-88826-033-4.
- West, Willis (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House. ISBN 0-919214-68-1.
- West, Willis (1949). BX and the Rush to Fort George. BC Historical Quarterly.
Notes
- ^ Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing. pp. 50–52. ISBN 0-88826-033-4.
- ^ West, Willis (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House. pp. 94. ISBN 0-919214-68-1.
- ^ a b Koppel, Tom (1995). Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Whitecap Books. pp. 103–104. ISBN 1-55110-295-1.
External links
- Explorasion.org. "Asian North America Timeline Project at UBC". http://www.explorasian.org/project.html. Retrieved 2007-08-03.
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