OWEN FORRESTER BROWNE

'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 1900's.

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Career

See also

Further reading

Notes

External links

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]
In 1915, he married Margaret Seymour of South Fort George, daughter of the locally famous, Granny Seymour, and they had four sons and five daughters.^[2]
Browne skippered the ''BX'' for her entire career from from May 13th 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.^[3]

After he left the Fraser, Browne piloted the ''Northland Echo'' on the Athabasca River in Alberta.
He retired to New Westminster, where he died in 1948.

See also

★ Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia

Further reading

★ Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, , Tom, Koppel, Whitecap Books, 1995,

★ Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1, , Art, Downs, Foremost Publishing, 1971,

★ Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC, , Willis, West, Heritage House, 1985,

★ BX and the Rush to Fort George, , Willis, West, BC Historical Quarterly, 1949,

Notes

1. Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1, , Art, Downs, Foremost Publishing, 1971,
2. Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, , Tom, Koppel, Whitecap Books, 1995,
3. Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC, , Willis, West, Heritage House, 1985,

External links

★ Asian North America Timeline Project at UBC Explorasion.org