Acknowledgements

My thanks to Margaret Horsfield for her help with this book. The research material she provided proved invaluable, as were her editing skills.

Thanks also to Captain David Young, author and former skipper of the Uchuck III, and Captain Mal Walsh, former deep sea tug master, for helping me understand how to navigate in fog, how triple expansion engines work and generally answering any query I had about things nautical.

My gratitude to Leona Taylor who, over many years, scoured Victoria newspapers in the BC archives, and created digital files itemizing thousands of articles. These proved an invaluable resource.

I would also like to acknowledge Gwen Hansen of the Quatsino Archives Association; Heather Cooper of the Bamfield Historical Society; Peter Timmermans, Claudia Cole and other volunteers at the Ucluelet Historical Society and Brenda McCorquodale for her articles about Northern Vancouver Island on her web site Undiscovered Coast. Nancy Lyon enlightened me on the early history of Clo-oose by allowing me to see letters and photos relating to the lives of her grandparents there in the early 1920s.

I also wish to thank the late Bob Wingen of Tofino and Margaret Thompson of Ucluelet for allowing me to interview them and providing me first hand knowledge of the Maquinna.

CPR Princess ship expert Robert D. Bob Turner generously shared information and photographs and Lois and Barry Warner provide me photographs taken by her father Harold Monks. Dal Matterson provided photos of his parents’ “tour bus” on Long Beach. Victoria’s Tessa Bousfield and Denton Pendergast helped me find one particularly evasive picture. I am grateful to them for their efforts on my behalf, as I am to Marc Phillips for his extraordinary photo shopping skills, transforming old photographs into gems. Jason Hummel provided me with his pictures of the West Coast Trail and John MacFarlane of Nauticapedia.ca offered help and sage advice on a number of issues.

Thank you all.