William Cowley
	
Billy Cowley was an experienced captain on the Yukon River. He was the captain of the sternwheeler //Lightning// in 1904 and 1907.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains,// 2019 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/)) He was still on the //Lightning// in 1912 and 1913.((Eric Johnson, "Industrial Railroads of the Klondike." 1993.)) During WWI, Cowley was in command of a transport on the Euphrates River.(("Gov.-General gets away on trip to Mayo." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 3 August 1922.)) 
	
Capt. Cowley was the captain on the //Nasutlin// when it was temporarily sunk in the Stewart River in 1921.((Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1921) WP&YR. RGI  II-I)) He was the captain of the //Nasutlin// when Lord Byng, his secretary Captain Balfour, Yukon MP Captain George Black, and RCMP Captain  Moorhead travelled on that boat from Dawson to Mayo in 1922.(("Gov.-General gets away on trip to Mayo." //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 3 August 1922.))  In 1922 he was also listed as the Master of the steamer //Canadian.//((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains,// 2019 website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/greenje/)) In 1923 he was again Master on the //Nisutlin.//((//Polks Gazetteer,// 1923-23.)) In 1942, Captain Cowley planned to return to the river and steam boating, despite the many years that had passed since he was last active.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 9 January 1942.))