aliceAlice
James Cooper constructed the aliceAlice, a 44-tonne iron schooner, from pieces he had brought from England to Vancouver Island.1 Cooper, who commanded HBC ships in the Pacific from 1844 to 1849, used the aliceAlice to trade between the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and San Francisco.2
HBC officials viewed Cooper’s activities as a threat to their monopoly and worked
to impede his activities; as a result, Cooper became an extremely vocal opponent of
the HBC.3
- 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 132.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.
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