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Timeline for James W. Troup
factobot added the fact Perhaps Captain Troup's only equal in achievement and esteem was his good friend and old employer, John Irving, who lived on until 1936. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact Captain Troup retired in August 1928. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact Troup's long career was closely linked with the C.P.R. from then onwards. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact In 1901, when the C.P.R. bought John Irving's company, the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Troup was transferred to Victoria, B.C. to assume charge of the operation that his former employer John Irving had established. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact When the Klondike Gold Rush generated a huge demand for shipping in 1898, the C.P.R. put Troup in charge of supervising steamboat construction. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact While Troup was in Oregon, his old Canadian colleagues John Irving and J.A. Mara had joined with Frank S. Barnard and two others to form the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact On May 26, 1888, Troup took the sternwheeler Hassalo through the Cascades of the Columbia, covering the six miles of whitewater in just seven minutes. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact worked with John Irving and the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company until 1886, when he returned to Oregon to assume charge of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company which was then owned by the Union Pacific. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact In 1883 Troup began working in British Columbia for J. A. Mara, owner of the Peerless and Spallumcheen, two steamboats running on Kamloops and Shuswap lakes and the Thompson River. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact Together with his father, Captain Troup built many of the early steamboats of the Columbia River and he went to work on the steamer Vancouver in 1872 at the age of 17. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact born in Portland, Oregon in February, 1855. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot added the fact Captain James William Troup was a highly successful steamboat captain in Oregon and British Columbia who rose to the top of several large shipping concerns, including the steamship service of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 2009-03-13 22:41
factobot created the term James W. Troup. 2009-03-13 22:41