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Bullen Family
Family

William Fitzherbert Bullen (1857 - 1921), a former employee at Albion Iron Works in Victoria, established the British Columbia Marine Railway Company in Lang Cove at the eastern end of Esquimalt Harbour in 1893. He was the managing director of the firm which he sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914.

Crocker Family
Family

Albert Herbert Crocker was an engineer in Canadian Pacific Coast Steamers. The Crocker family reside in Victoria, BC.

Raymond family
Family

Commodor D.L. Raymond (1904-1998) entered the Royal Navy as a cadet at the age of 14. In 1944, he was loaned from the Royal Navy to the Royal Canadian Navy in the rank of Captain and, in 1948, he was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and finished his career in the rank of Commodore, having commanded the cruiser Ontario, HMCS Shearwater, the Naval Air Station in Dartmouth, and HMCS Stadacona.

SS Glafkos (ship)
Family · 1943 -

Steel single screw freighter, 6,996 tons gross, built by Marine Industries Québec as Algonquin Park. Renamed Johnstar in 1950, renamed Santhy in 1957, and renamed Glafkos in 1960.