Career
Troake served with the Newfoundland Forestry Unit in Scotland until 1942. He commanded many sealing vessels in the Newfoundland and Labrador sealing fishery amongst which is the Steamship Kyle. From 1950 to 1970 he commanded the Move Files Christmas Seal as it went from community to community with its mobile X-Ray unit to test the population for tuberculosis.
From 1971 to 1979 he commanded the Grenfell Association"s Strathcona and was the first president of the Canadian Rescue Auxiliary, Newfoundland division.
In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
