The reader will readily note from the Port Alberni Maritime Heritage Website by tapping Board members you'll see where I made mention of a distant forefather in David Thompson. I'll take this opportunity through a blog we now have on the website to explain this further. Several decades back my brother Don; Dr. Don W. Whiteman, Ophthalmolist working in Trenton, Ontario to be more precise had an idea to research our ancestral background on our Dad's side of the family. Over the