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-10- of the YQT'r iirst pilots, is remembeririin the name of Sttershank Cove on the 'vest Vancouver shoreline^ The Board»s t"ask, after the initial setting-up of suitable by-laws, seems to ha^e been concerned largely with disciplinary and financial matters, the question of apprenticeship and the licensing of pilot boats?- At this time the pilotage dues were $3.00 per foot of length for vessels v/ith a draught of less than ten feet and $4*00 per foot for those over ten feet^ and the pilots themselves were responsible for the provision of a suitable vessel from which to ’^speak^^ incoming ships. This boat might be open or necked, v/as required to have the name of the ov;ner on the stern and to have its hull painted black.^ In all events the provision of a pilot boat, as well ciS an onshore pilot station seems to have been a very casual affair, for from 1^79 when the local authority was set up 1. 2. 3. 4. Major iJ.S. Matthev/s, Early Vancouver, VollIII, op.cit. P. 365, Conversation with W.A. Grafton, 24th I-larch, 1934. Minute Book, Yale and New V/estminster Pilotage Authority, op.cit Amended Pilotage By-Laws. 1^77, op.cit. litatutts of Canada, 36 Victoria, Chap 54, op.cit.