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John Irving (November 24, 1854 – August or October 10, 1936)〔()〕 was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the age of 18 and would become one of the most famous and prosperous riverboat captains of the era. His father, William Irving was known as the "King of the River" and the neighborhood of Irvington in Portland, Oregon is named in honor of their family. ==Early years== John was born in 1854 in the suburb of Irvington in Portland, Oregon, the second child and only son of William and Elizabeth Irving.〔(Irvington Community Association )〕 The family moved to New Westminster, British Columbia in 1859 and John's father began work on the Fraser River. William Irving became a partner in the Victoria Steam Navigation Company and built two sternwheelers, the ''Governor Douglas'' and the ''Colonel Moody'' to serve between New Westminster and Victoria. However, he did not have a monopoly on the route and rate wars soon erupted between him and his main rival, Captain William Moore who was running his ''Henrietta'' on the same route. In 1862, news of the gold strikes in the Cariboo Gold Rush brought 4,000 miners to the area and William Irving sold his boats to John Wright and had another sternwheeler built, the ''Reliance'' and later the ''Onward'' which were kept busy shipping miners and supplies to Yale where they could travel on the nearly completed Cariboo Wagon Road to the goldfields at Barkerville.〔 John Irving was only eighteen when his father died on August 28, 1872 at New Westminster. He inherited the ''Onward'' and the ''Reliance'' and soon proved that he was capable of following in his father's footsteps.〔(''Samson V''-City of New Westminster Museum: "Fraser's Riverboat Captains" (accessed 11-29-2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Irving (steamship captain)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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