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PAGE 7 "GRACE DARLING OF THE NARROWS** - ADDENDUM Dorothy Mawdsley Harris’s story of her family's years at the First Narrows Light and Fog Station, which appeared in our last issue, was shortened for the sake of space but, for the most part, it was in her own words. The only insertion made by the editor was the year in which Leslie H. Harris was lost off the Princess Louise. Based on the writer's account of the incident as having occurred on the. ship's "return maiden trip to Alaska" and having researched that event, into the story went the year 1922. In 1961, Mrs. Dorothy Harrop, nee Harris, wrote a letter to Vancouver newspaperman Charles M. Defieux. Defieux printed the letter in his column "Of Ships and Men" under the heading KAMLOOPS LADY RECALLS THE PAST. Mrs. Harrop wrote, "My brother was drowned off the Princess Louise coming from the Yukon in 1924". Now, chronologically, that makes a lot more sense than the 1922 date because George Alfred Harris took to his bed not long after the tragic loss of his son and it seems unlikely that, as keeper of the light, he would spend three years in bed before his own life ebbed in the spring of 1925. An undated newspaper article furnished by Mrs. Elaine Hollingsworth, granddaughter of Mrs. Harrop, sheds some light on the drowning misadventure. WHITE HORSE MAN LOST FROM STEAMER "En route home from a winter's work at White Horse, Yukon Territory, Leslie H. Harris, son of George Harris of the Calamity Point Lighthouse, fell overboard from the Princess Louise on Saturday night. Harris was a huge, good-natured young man of 24 years, travelling steerage with four comrades from the far north. After an evening of jokes and stories, he left his cabin and was last seen by a night watchman and A. W. Osborne of the Brooklyn Eagle, a fellow passenger. He was on his way to the boat deck of the Princess Louise. On Sunday his hat was found under one of the small boats and it is thought the man was thrown overboard by a heavy toss of the steamer. A small sum of money was found in the pocket of Harris' coat, which he had left in his cabin, while his bank book contained a good balance." Mrs. Hollingsworth and other family members share a belief that fellow travellers who would have been well aware of the large amount of money that Harris carried, robbed him and threw him overboard. Among the Harris papers donated to the Archives by Mrs. Hollingsworth is a copy of a letter of recommendation, exquisitely written under the hand of Arthur N. Edwards, Manager of the West Vancouver Municipal Ferries. The letter is dated June 25th, 1920 and reads as follows: To whom it may concern This is to certify that the bearer Leslie H. Harris was working for us on our boat as an Apprentice Machinist on the repair work from Oct. 16th, 1916 to April 30th, 1917 leaving when the work was finished. During the time he was with us he gave entire satisfaction as a workman and gave excellent attention to his duties.