Arthur Douglas Lewis (1866 – 1918)
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.1)
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.2)
Arthur Lewis drowned when the Princess Sophia sank in the Lynn Canal.3)