CS-Records ID: 842
Captain Bernard "Barney" Leitch Johnson came to Vancouver from England in 1898. On January 4, 1904, he married Florence "Flora" MacDonald Grant and had a son, Bernard Dodds Leitch, in November of that same year. Johnson worked as a Captain for the Union Steamship Co., bringing the SS Prince Rupert from England to Vancouver in 1910. He commanded this ship on B.C. coast runs until 1913. He then worked as a coast pilot. After serving in World War I as a Naval Captain aboard submarines, including the ones purchased by the B.C. Government, he returned to take up a position as Superintendent of Pilotage. In 1920, he organized Johnson Walton Steamships Limited and then Westward Shipping. Johnson became a widower in 1924. He later remarried on December 10, 1937 to Ellen Weaver Hart. In 1938, he was appointed an Advisor to the National Defense Department. He also acted on the Japanese Fishing Vessel Disposal Commission. After his service in World War II, he returned to Vancouver and continued his business operations. He also served as Commodore for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.
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The fonds consists of logbooks, 1910, 1918; towage rates book, 1930; address books for miscellaneous notes, 1910-1930; photographs; memorabilia; clipping and memoirs.
Photographs in this fonds have been assigned catalogue numbers with the prefix CVA 582.
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CS-Records ID: 74876
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CS-Records ID: 74877
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File contains two address books, dated 1910-1920 and 1920-1930, with information on vessels, crew, costs, personal matters and other miscellaneous marine items in alphabetical order.
CS-Records ID: 74878
Folder formerly located at 567-F-06 fld 03.
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File contains notebook, H.M. "Submarine E54" with notes on voyage to Provincetown, Mass., and voyages on S.S. "Prince Rupert".
CS-Records ID: 74879
Folder formerly located at 567-F-06 fld 04.
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CS-Records ID: 74880
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File contains manuscripts of the experiences of Capt. Johnson in World War I and World War II, particularly his command of the submarines purchased by the B.C. government in 1914 and his work with the Naval Advisory Board in Ottawa and the Japanese Fishing Vessel Disposal Commission.
CS-Records ID: 74881
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File contains memorial book given to Johnson upon his leaving the Grand Trunk Pacific vessel "Prince Rupert".
CS-Records ID: 74882
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File contains two items of correspondence and copy of speech to the Plimsoll Club.
CS-Records ID: 74883
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CS-Records ID: 74884
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File contains printed caricature of Capt. Johnson; master's certificate, 1907; Royal Vancouver Yacht Club life member car, 1951; Christmas card from Ian A. Mackenzie; and copy of biography of Johnson in OK Bladet, page 15, dated December 1968.
CS-Records ID: 74885
Folder formerly located at 567-D-01 fld 04.
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Item is a photograph showing the HMCS Lanark frigate ship.
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Photographer's number: 8621
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Photographer's number: NF2774
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Photograph shows the following individuals from left to right, back row: Stoker Morgan, Stoker Simmons, LS Lock, AB "Ginger", PO Roberts, unknown; centre row: Stoker "Ginger", unknown, AB Sutherland, LS Foreman, Stoker PO Flanagan, AB Waite (cook); front
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Photograph shows 3 men and Dodds aged 10 on cunning tower wearing his father's coat and cap.
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Photographer's number : 103
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Photograph shows 2 men on the deck of a ship.
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Includes list of names of individuals in photograph.
Photographer's number: H 3143
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