Talk:John West (captain)

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Mr. West apparently wasn't really a "Captain" (hence the quote marks). I see nothing wrong with moving this back to "Captain" John West if that is how he was widely known, since I can't find the part of the manual of style that discourages this. But despite over 1000 Google hits for "John West"+Salmon+Oregon-wikipedia, if you add the word "captain" to the search it cuts the results in half, and adding "captain west" OR "captain john west" results in only 7 hits. So how about John West (salmon canner)? It appears he was best known for running the cannery. Other qualifiers include "entrepreneur", "inventor", "Oregon pioneer", "Oregon businessperson"... Unless we can find out his middle name... Katr67 (talk) 21:59, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

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Just a sampling. I don't know if these are any good. Katr67 (talk) 21:59, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The Centennial History of Oregon, Google Books
 * Court Case html of PDF
 * In Search of Western Oregon, Google Books
 * http://www.electricscotland.com/history/men/west_john.htm
 * http://www.oregontic.com/council/docs/HM_Committee_Minutes_2007_Feb_09.pdf
 * http://wagenweb.org/wahkiakum/
 * http://sharpgary.org/FisheryTimeline.html
 * http://cogna50usa.org/05portland/2005_portland,_oregon.htm
 * http://www.brian894x4.com/Westporttunnel.html
 * http://www.opb.org/programs/oregonstory/fishing/timeline.html
 * http://www.cumtux.org/default.asp?pageid=36&deptid=1
 * History of Oregon, Google Books
 * http://wagenweb.org/wahkiakum/obits/ingram,%20christina%20west.txt