Abel Douglass

Abel Douglass (1841 – 1908) was an American whaling captain.[1][2]

Abel Douglass
Abel Douglass, 1890
Born1841
Maine
Died1908 (aged 66–67)
Seattle
OccupationWhaler

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 common-law relationship with Maria Mahoi, who was of Hawaiian and First Nations descent; they lived with their seven children on Saltspring Island.[5][6] Mahoi later married George Fisher and moved to Russell Island.[5]

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See also

References
  1. Vinnedge, Dale (2014). Pacific Northwest's Whaling Coast. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 9.
  2. Webb, Robert Lloyd (1988). On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 125–133.
  3. Wright, E. W., ed. (1895). Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Company. p. 441.
  4. "GeoBC: Whaletown". The Province of British Columbia. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  5. "Hawaiian Settlement on Russell Island". Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  6. "Maria Mahoi of the Islands". New Star Books. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  7. Ozeki, Ruth (2013). A Tale for the Time Being. Viking. p. 51.
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