Please help translate 2 short paragraphs! Thank you!

This extraordinary man was born in Port, England on January 18, 1801. Living by the sea, he has been fascinated by the sea since he was a child and wanted to be a sailor. But his father, a merchant ship captain, did not want him to become a sailor. When he was 8 years old, his father took him to the Baltic Sea... After that, he never took him anywhere else.

James went to boarding school until he was 15 years old. Later he worked as an apprentice in a grocery store. Two years after the Evanses immigrated to Canada, he went to live with them in LaChute. In Canada, he began teaching, and in 1823, he met and married Mary Bliss.