Owen Forrester Browne

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Owen Forrester Browne

Captain Owen Forrester Browne
Born New Westminster, British Columbia
Died 1948
New Westminster, British Columbia
Occupation steamship captain
Spouse Margaret Seymour
Parents Owen Wamsley Browne and Teresa Aponi

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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[edit] Career

BX 1911
BX 1911

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,one of Brownes daughters name was Tito. In year 1952 Tito married ranford Messer and together they had 4 children. 2 sons and 2 daughters. One of Messer's daughters name was Colleen Messer. In year 2003 Collen married Bruce Holbrook from Ontario,Canada. Together they had 2 daughters, Stephanie and Sasha.[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]

Northland Echo 1931
Northland Echo 1931

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.[2]

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[edit] Further reading

  • Koppel, Tom (1995). Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Whitecap Books, 104. ISBN 1-55110-295-1. 
  • Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing. ISBN 0888260334. 
  • West, Willis (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House. ISBN 0-919214-68-1. 
  • West, Willis (1949). BX and the Rush to Fort George. BC Historical Quarterly. 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing, 50-52. ISBN 0888260334. 
  2. ^ a b Koppel, Tom (1995). Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Whitecap Books, 103-104. ISBN 1-55110-295-1. 
  3. ^ West, Willis (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House, 94. ISBN 0-919214-68-1. 

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