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Arthur D. Lewis (1866 – 1918)
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.1)
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Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1990: 10.
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