Port Mellon


Port Mellon (49˚31'00" 123˚29'00" W side of Thornbrough Channel, W side of Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). Henry Augustus Mellon (1840–1916) was a former RN officer who came to Canada from England and worked as a master mariner for the Allan Line and Dominion Steamship Co. In 1886 he and his wife, Susanna Gertrude Clarke (c 1844–1926), moved to Vancouver, where he found employment as a marine surveyor and insurance agent, and as an examiner of masters and mates. He was eventually named a...

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