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by ths inaugural meeting of the Yale and Kew Westminster district Pilotage Authority held at Hoodyville under the Chairmanship of Captain J.A. Ra}cnur, manager of the B.C. ana V.I, Spar and 1 Lumber Co. Also present were Hugh Nelson, G'.Q. Major and Ben Springer, an .enterprising gentleman who had spent seme years 2 1 in Barkerville and who was appointed Secretary to the Board. One of the first acts taken by the Board w^s to advertise for ’^persons desirous of becoming pilots^’^ and to frame local pilotage by-laws which had to be approved by the Ministe of Marine and Fisheries in t)ttawa. Among the earliest applications for pilot certificates were those received from Captain James Christensen, Donald Urquhart and Bill^^ Ettershank. Mot much i^ known of Gsptain Christensen but both Captain Urquhart and Captain Ettershank had come to British Columbia from Scotland in their youth-^ in adaition it is know.n that Captain Ettershank was married to an Indian girl and his name, alone among those 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Colonist, 11th January, 1S69- Cariboo Sentinel, 19th August, 1^6?, Minute Book, Yale and Nev/ Westminster Pilotage Authority, Vancouver City Archives, Ad. Mss. 36. Ibid. The Colonist, 10th September, 1^93 and 15th f^y, 1B94. Ma^or J.S. Matthews, Early Vancouver, Vol. FJ, op.cit. P. 1?. Conversation with August Jack Haatsalano, 7th June, 1937.