Owen Forrester Browne was a paddle steamer captain in British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada.

Owen Forrester Browne, of Hawaiian heritage, began work on the upper Fraser River in 1906 piloting the pioneer sternwheeler Charlotte.

[1] Browne skippered the BX for his entire career from May 13, 1910, until August 1919 when she sank in the Cottonwood Canyon carrying 100 tons of sacked cement bound for Soda Creek that had been intended for building the Deep Creek Bridge of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

[2] After he left the Fraser, Browne piloted the Northland Echo on the Athabasca River in Alberta.

[3] Browne's mother-in-law Granny Seymour (née Margaret Boucher) came to be known as the holder of important traditional herbal medicine and Indigenous knowledge[4] and her longevity attracted local and international attention.