[1] In 1975, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of Victoria as a member of the Social Credit Party.
[2] Bawlf's book, The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake, was published in 2003 and had sold more than 20,000 copies by the time of his death.
Bawlf challenged the commonly held belief that fellow British explorer James Cook was the first European to ever visit the B.C.
Under the cover of a "pirate" raiding Spanish galions during the course of an already ambitious worldwide circumnavigation project (the second ever after Magellan), Drake would have managed to accomplish the B.C.
coastal reconnaissance exploit under an elizabethan investors mandate to check the access to the western side of the Northwest Passage.