The early histories of Bassendean Caledonians and George "Geordie" Love Brown will forever be intertwined. He is regarded as the father of the club, despite the fact he was never obviously a player. At home he had been athlete, a runner, a member of Shettleston Harriers, born in Glasgow in 1883 and brought up in Dennistoun before in 1910 at just seventeen arriving in Western Australia, a pattern-maker to trade as his father had been, and initially involving himself in Australian Rules, presumably as a condition trainer.

But it was he, who in 1913, convened the first meeting of the Caledonians and would be for the first two years President, the Secretary, D.H. Reid, the committee members, Messrs Dewar, Waddell, Gourlay, McKay and Campbell. However, on the outbreak of The Great War he at still twenty-one enlisted was in 1916 posted abroad only returning in 1919 but having been awarded the Military Medal. Yet once back in Fremantle he set about rebuilding the club, not an easy task with it only in 1926 able to take the League. However, the following season the results of his efforts would bear full fruit. The Caledonians would not just retain the championship and without losing a point but also take all the other competitions entered.

By then Geordie Brown had been married for over a decade, his wife Susan. And the couple would early on settle in North Fremantle, Geordie turning from the mid-1920s to wagon-building, his house there in later life on Fairlight St. at Cottesloe Beach and until his death in 1958 proudly named "Scotia".