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4 unusual facts about William Alexander Mouat


William Alexander Mouat

William Alexander Mouat was baptised on 9 April 1821 in Eastcheap, in the City of London.

On 28 November 1851 the Beaver, under the command of Captain Charles E Stuart towed the Mary Dare, under William Mouat’s command, to Budd Inlet, on which the American Olympia custom-house was situated.

One of their daughters, Ethel Margaret, married Dr James Douglas Helmcken, grandson of Sir James Douglas, colonial governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

Gold was discovered in 1865 on the Big Bend of the Columbia River (the Big Bend Gold Rush) and William Mouat was asked to investigate the possibility of steam navigation on the Kamloops Lake, Shuswap Lake and the Thompson River between the lakes.



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