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-7- of vessels plving British Columbia waters regularly might obtain a pilotage certificate; for these certificates all applicants were to pass yearly examinations and pay an annual fee of $100.00 as v^ell as ovm a share in a registered pilot boat.^ In May i960 R.V/. Stevens had noted the presence of ’^ten large ships averaging 8OO tons^» taking in cargo 9 in Burrard Inlet from the two sawmills thereby the late l37Cs th e settlements on the inlet had grown a great deal and as controversy^'over the v/estern terminus of the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway raged on, it became obvious that Burrard Inlet v;as destined for considerable grovrth. Small wonaer then that by February 1^7^ merchants in the area were publicly demanding a separate pilotage authority for Burrard Inlet^ for by this time the insTormal arrangeirieht of local pilots being supplied by the sav/mills seems to have given v;ay almost entirely 1. Report of Royal Commission, 196B, op.cit, P. 13. 2. J.H. Hamilton, dp. dit. P. 1^5. 3* A. Morley, From Milltown to Mteropolis, Mitchell Press, “Vancouver, b.c. 1961, P. 60. 4* Mainland Guardian, 2nd February, IB7S Pilot Boat for Burrard Inlet^’