Abel Douglass
Abel Douglass | |
|---|---|
 Abel Douglass, 1890 | |
| Born | 1841 |
| Died | 1908 (aged 66–67) |
| Occupation | Whaler |
Abel Douglass (1841–1908) was an American whaling captain.[1][2]
Douglass born in 1841 in Maine as part of a seafaring maritime family.[3]
Career
In the 1860s, Douglass partnered with James Dawson. The Dawson and Douglass Whaling Company worked off the coast of British Columbia.[1] The non-Native whaling industry in British Columbia began when Dawson and Douglass took eight whales from Saanich Inlet in 1868.[4]
Dawson and Douglass founded
Whaletown in 1869 as a whaling station on Cortes Island.[4] The Whaletown operation was later moved to what is now called Whaling Station Bay on Hornby Island; the Dawson and Douglass Company merged with the Lipsett Whaling Company to form the British Columbia Whaling Company, but the company closed in 1871.[4]
Personal life
Douglass had a
See also
- A Tale for the Time Being a novel by Ruth Ozeki, mentions Douglass[7]
- History of whaling
References
- ^ ISBN 9781467132572.
- ISBN 9780774843157.
- ^ Wright, E. W., ed. (1895). Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Company. p. 441.
- ^ a b c "GeoBC: Whaletown". The Province of British Columbia. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- ^ a b "Hawaiian Settlement on Russell Island". Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- ^ "Maria Mahoi of the Islands". New Star Books. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- ISBN 9781101606254.