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Personally: Captain is quite friendly and will welcome you on board his ship. The only times where he can get very angry is if you disobey orders or goof off if you’re a member of the crew. Otherwise, he does have patience but it’s advised not to test it. It’s rare for him to get an outburst. He enjoys being out on the Great Lakes and meeting new people.
Background history:
“Captain” Ernest Donaldson Smith was born on June 12, 1893 within the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a young orca calf, Captain grew up along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Under the watchful eyes of his parents, he would play on the beaches and shorelines running around, making sand castles and so forth. He would also take an interest in the many ships that would sail in and out of Halifax harbour from across the pond from the Old World.
In 1904 when he was eleven-years old, Captain and his parents moved west inland to Toronto in the province of Ontario. As someone who lived close to the sea, Captain would find the inland freshwater sea, Lake Ontario, to be a new experience for him. Like with Halifax, Toronto harbour would be filled with ships of all sizes from ferries to lake freighters and passenger vessels. Captain and his parents would travel to the Toronto Islands via steam-powered ferries such as the PS Trillium for picnics and walks. He and his family would also attend the Canadian National Exhibition held in August and into early September to Labour Day.
By his late teens (the 1910’s), the world around Captain had evolved with the advancement of technology from steam trains, automobiles and airplanes to the electric light bulb, the telephone, wireless, and such. It seemed that things would get better and better...that was until the following year.
In 1912, the ocean liner RMS Titanic of the White Star Line sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with the loss of many lives. The sinking shook the world and how it was thought that a ship that was claimed to be “unsinkable” would founder on her first voyage. The sinking would be a wake up call for all vessels to be equipped with enough lifeboats for everyone on board. In his later years as a skipper, Captain would vow he would never want to be in the same situation as Captain Smith in the event of a disaster like the Titanic. Despite the sinking, it wouldn’t deter Captain from his love of ships. However, three years after the sinking of the Titanic, another disaster would occur close to home in Lake Michigan. The American steamship SS Eastland capsized in the Chicago River due to being overloaded with passengers on the open upper decks.
Around the time of the Eastland’s capsize, World War I was ragging in Europe. Captain’s parents feared that he would be pressed into shipping overseas to fight in the conflict. Captain though, instead wanted to work on board a ship on the Great Lakes. He would soon find a job.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had founded a steamship service line in the upper Great Lakes (Georgian Bay, Lake Heron and Lake Superior) to link the railway’s continental route. The vessels of the service had originally sailed from Owen Sound on the Bruce Peninsula to Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior. In 1912, a new port and rail terminus, Port McNicoll, was established and the ships would reroute from it rather than Owen Sound.
Captain would get hired as a sailor on board the SS Manitoba in 1916 at the age of 23. As the years went on, he would rise up the ranks from sailor to officer. In 1924, Captain would be promoted to skipper and captain his first ship the SS Keewatin, an Edwardian era steamship built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland in 1907.
Commanding the Keewatin, he sails the vessel from Port McNicoll to Port Arthur and vice versa in the summer months up till November when winter shuts down the shipping season, a journey that crosses two lakes, Huron and Superior, and a trip through the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie.
Facts:
-Originally, my character had worked for a fictional company called Maple Leaf Line on board an Olympic-class style vessel called RMS Canada from 2010 till late 2018 when I decided to retire them both
-Original plans were to have my character skipper either the Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain (1930) or Empress of Canada (1920) but the idea was scrapped due to those ocean-going vessels being mostly British manned according to my research online
-Being covered in blubber, Captain is naturally resistant to cold water
-Captain’s current residence in Owen Sound is just a few blocks from the childhood home of Canadian aviator Billy Bishop
-Captain works for the Canadian Pacific Steamships Upper Great Lakes service within his current time period. Later on in the 1930’s, he would work for the Canada Steamship Lines commanding the passenger vessel SS Noronic and in later years a few lake freighters within the same company until his retirement in the late 60’s
-Captain’s full name is named after the following people: Ernest after the skipper of the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Ernest M. McSorley. Donaldson after Donald Alexander Smith, one of the co-founders of the Canadian Pacific Railway who also drove down the last spike for the railway in Craigellachie, BC. Finally, Smith after the Titanic’s captain Edward John Smith who had served as an inspiration of my character from his creation back in 2010
-Owns a 24’ Ford Model T
Character © me.
Personally: Captain is quite friendly and will welcome you on board his ship. The only times where he can get very angry is if you disobey orders or goof off if you’re a member of the crew. Otherwise, he does have patience but it’s advised not to test it. It’s rare for him to get an outburst. He enjoys being out on the Great Lakes and meeting new people.
Background history:
“Captain” Ernest Donaldson Smith was born on June 12, 1893 within the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a young orca calf, Captain grew up along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Under the watchful eyes of his parents, he would play on the beaches and shorelines running around, making sand castles and so forth. He would also take an interest in the many ships that would sail in and out of Halifax harbour from across the pond from the Old World.
In 1904 when he was eleven-years old, Captain and his parents moved west inland to Toronto in the province of Ontario. As someone who lived close to the sea, Captain would find the inland freshwater sea, Lake Ontario, to be a new experience for him. Like with Halifax, Toronto harbour would be filled with ships of all sizes from ferries to lake freighters and passenger vessels. Captain and his parents would travel to the Toronto Islands via steam-powered ferries such as the PS Trillium for picnics and walks. He and his family would also attend the Canadian National Exhibition held in August and into early September to Labour Day.
By his late teens (the 1910’s), the world around Captain had evolved with the advancement of technology from steam trains, automobiles and airplanes to the electric light bulb, the telephone, wireless, and such. It seemed that things would get better and better...that was until the following year.
In 1912, the ocean liner RMS Titanic of the White Star Line sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with the loss of many lives. The sinking shook the world and how it was thought that a ship that was claimed to be “unsinkable” would founder on her first voyage. The sinking would be a wake up call for all vessels to be equipped with enough lifeboats for everyone on board. In his later years as a skipper, Captain would vow he would never want to be in the same situation as Captain Smith in the event of a disaster like the Titanic. Despite the sinking, it wouldn’t deter Captain from his love of ships. However, three years after the sinking of the Titanic, another disaster would occur close to home in Lake Michigan. The American steamship SS Eastland capsized in the Chicago River due to being overloaded with passengers on the open upper decks.
Around the time of the Eastland’s capsize, World War I was ragging in Europe. Captain’s parents feared that he would be pressed into shipping overseas to fight in the conflict. Captain though, instead wanted to work on board a ship on the Great Lakes. He would soon find a job.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had founded a steamship service line in the upper Great Lakes (Georgian Bay, Lake Heron and Lake Superior) to link the railway’s continental route. The vessels of the service had originally sailed from Owen Sound on the Bruce Peninsula to Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior. In 1912, a new port and rail terminus, Port McNicoll, was established and the ships would reroute from it rather than Owen Sound.
Captain would get hired as a sailor on board the SS Manitoba in 1916 at the age of 23. As the years went on, he would rise up the ranks from sailor to officer. In 1924, Captain would be promoted to skipper and captain his first ship the SS Keewatin, an Edwardian era steamship built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland in 1907.
Commanding the Keewatin, he sails the vessel from Port McNicoll to Port Arthur and vice versa in the summer months up till November when winter shuts down the shipping season, a journey that crosses two lakes, Huron and Superior, and a trip through the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie.
Facts:
-Originally, my character had worked for a fictional company called Maple Leaf Line on board an Olympic-class style vessel called RMS Canada from 2010 till late 2018 when I decided to retire them both
-Original plans were to have my character skipper either the Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain (1930) or Empress of Canada (1920) but the idea was scrapped due to those ocean-going vessels being mostly British manned according to my research online
-Being covered in blubber, Captain is naturally resistant to cold water
-Captain’s current residence in Owen Sound is just a few blocks from the childhood home of Canadian aviator Billy Bishop
-Captain works for the Canadian Pacific Steamships Upper Great Lakes service within his current time period. Later on in the 1930’s, he would work for the Canada Steamship Lines commanding the passenger vessel SS Noronic and in later years a few lake freighters within the same company until his retirement in the late 60’s
-Captain’s full name is named after the following people: Ernest after the skipper of the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Ernest M. McSorley. Donaldson after Donald Alexander Smith, one of the co-founders of the Canadian Pacific Railway who also drove down the last spike for the railway in Craigellachie, BC. Finally, Smith after the Titanic’s captain Edward John Smith who had served as an inspiration of my character from his creation back in 2010
-Owns a 24’ Ford Model T
Character © me.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Orca
Gender Male
Size 4794 x 3712px
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