-4- Meanwhile in the separate colony of British Columbia mainlana, Quesnsborough (now hew V/estminster) had in June 1^59 been established as a port of entry and in 16^61 an Act had been passed governing pilotage rates for vessels drawing more than seven feet entering the Fraser River port.^ This was folaowea five years later by an ordinance giving the Governor, in Council power to ’^appoint and vary†pilot boards'^ such a board having already been established in hew Westminster in July 1865*^ Simultaneously the infant settlements on Burrard Inlet began to feel the need of a pilot to navigate trading vessels to and from Stamp’s Mill on the south shore and Moodyville on thenorth. Initially most sailing vessels had come into the inlet under tow either by U.3. tugs or by Captain Stamp’s own steam tug Isabel^ although each mill could, if needed, provide an unofficial pilot from among their employees. The demand for an official pilot for the inlet v/as met in 1865 with the granting of a licence for pilotage to Charles Houston in Octooer 6f that year^ with a second licence being given to A.J. Chambers 1. D.B. Smith, op.cit. 2. *feie Colonist, 11 June 1866 3. D.B. Smith, op.cit. 4. Major J.S. Matthews, Early Vancouver, Vol.lil, op.cit, P. 33* Conversation ^ith J.H. Scales, 5th July, 1933* 5. N. Hacking, Letter to author dated 4th February, 1976. 6. B.C. Government Gazette, 14th October, 1865.