 His master's thesis was based on fieldwork with the Salish people of the Fraser River in B.C.He collaborated with Charles E. Borden in 1952 to develop the Borden System for archeological site designations.He served as Curator of Anthropology at the British Columbia Provincial Museum (later known as the Royal British Columbia Museum or RBCM) in Victoria from 1950 to 1965, at which point he joined the faculty at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at UBC.