Dorman Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, between West and East Cracroft Islands on the north side of the isthmus that joins them at low tide.
He came out to Vancouver with his family around 1910 and worked at the Kildonan and Uchucklesit canneries near Alberni Inlet.
In 1928, he surveyed the site for the cannery at Bones Bay [about 1 mile southwest of Dorman Island on the north shore of West Cracroft Island, building it and operating it until 1954 - the only cannery operator to never have a can rejected.
He died on February 9, 1969; his ashes were buried in an unmarked grave on the shores of Bones Bay.
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