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Charles Edward Walton was an engineer in the Royal Navy from 1874-1915.

Charles William Walton was indentured into the trade of confectioners.

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

Steel, twin screw, 1,943 tons gross, passenger steamer operated by Canadian Pacific Railway. She was sold in 1951 and her hull converted to hog (wood chip) carrier. In 1953, she struck rock in Welcome Pass north of Vancouver and foundered. Princess Victoria was the first new ship built for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and, like almost all of the others, was built in Scotland.

Single screw, United States Navy tank landing ship configured as a repair ship for landing craft. She served in the western Pacific in 1945 and was laid up in reserve in Vancouver, Washington in 1946. In 1966, she was acquired by Canadian Pacific Railways and converted to carry railway cars and truck trailers as the 2,689 tons gross M/V Trailer Princess until 2008.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company entered into the shipping business in 1884, operating three ships on the Great Lakes. In 1901, with the acquisition of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, the C.P.R. Company had established shipping services between British Columbia and Asia, on inland waterways in British Columbia, and in British Columbia coastal waters. Transatlantic freight and passenger services started in 1903. Eventually, C.P.R.’s deep-sea fleet came to be managed in Liverpool and most of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s ocean-going vessels were registered in the UK and in the late 1970s, the company divested itself of its coastal and passenger shipping.

In 1971, the name of the deep-sea operation was changed to C.P. Ships. In 2001, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was divided into four separate entities one of which was C.P. Ships. In 2005, C.P. Ships was acquired by a German conglomerate and by 2011, the C.P. Ships name had disappeared from commercial shipping.

The HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt is located on south side of Esquimalt harbor and was established by the Royal Navy to support warships on the Pacific Station. The dockyard was formally transferred to Canada 1910. The first structures, built in 1855, in what became the dockyard were wooden huts built on Duntze Head at its western end. In 1865, Esquimalt was recognized as an alternative base to Valparaiso for the Royal Navy’s Pacific Station. In that year a “small establishment for the custody of stores and provisions” was authorized. The start of repair facilities came in 1872 and the building of a graving dock by the Canadian government just to the east of the dockyard was done between 1876 and 1886. This addition greatly enhanced Esquimalt’s usefulness as a support base. Until around 1910, the dockyard was called HM Navy Yard. In 1940, The dockyard was expanded eastwards to meet wartime demands. The dockyard is still in operation today as part of Canadian Forces Base (CFB), Esquimalt.

Wood screw corvette, 2,187 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1856 to 1860 and then again in 1869.

E.A. Morris travelled from England to the United States and from the United States to the British Columbia coast in the 1870s and 1880s.