Early Life
Raymond Collishaw was born at Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada on 22 November 1893. His father was John Edward Collishaw from Wrexham, Wales and his mother Sarah "Sadie" Jones from Newport, Wales but raised in Pantygog, Garw Valley.
At the age of 15, the younger Collishaw joined the Canadian Fisheries Protection Services as a cabin boy. He was a lower class sailor on board the Alcedo when it sailed into the Arctic Circle in search of the Stefansson expedition. Unfortunately, it turned out that the expedition was too late to rescue the Karluk. He would continue working on ships and the coast for the next seven years. By 1915, he had worked his way up to first officer.
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