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| Arthur D. Lewis (1866 – 1918) | Arthur D. Lewis (1866 – 1918) |
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| Lewis Arthur was born in England and immigrated to British Columbia when in his early twenties. He worked for six years at the naval dockyard at Esquimalt. In 1898, he came to the Yukon and worked as a purser on the White Pass & Yukon Route steamers. His wife and children lived in Victoria and he returned there every fall. He spent the winters during the First World War selling real estate. In the summer of 1918, he was purser on the sternwheeler //Casca.// He drowned that fall when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 10.)) | Arthur Lewis was born in London, England. He went to the Palace School, Enfield and at Windsor before joining the London Stock Exchange. He immigrated to British Columbia in 1888 and worked for six years as a dock worker at Esquimalt. He worked with Poudre on exploration work in northern British Columbia and in 1898 became the agent in Skagway for the Bennett Lake Navigation Company. He then became a purser on the //SS Casca// [for White Pass / British Yukon Navigation]. His wife and children stayed in Victoria while he worked in the north in the summers. In the winters he worked in Victoria selling real estate for Lewis and Roberts.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 74-75.)) |
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| | Between 1900 and 1909, Lewis and his family lived a portion of the time in Whitehorse and the rest of the time in Dawson. Jack, the eldest son, started his career at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Dawson. From about 1914 to 1916/17, when he enlisted for service in the First World War, Jack was the manager of the Bank of Commerce in Summerland, British Columbia.((//The Weekly Star// (Dawson), 23 May 1917.)) |
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| | Arthur Lewis drowned in 1918 when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 74-75.)) |
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