Bull Island


Bull Island (E end of Bull Passage), Bull Passage (49˚29'00" 124˚12'00" Between Lasqueti I and Jedediah I, S of Texada I in Str of Georgia). John Augustus Bull was master of HMS Plumper, 1857–60, and senior survey assistant to Capt George Richards, who named the passage after him about 1860. He died suddenly in Nov of that year at Esquimalt, aged 27, only nine months after marrying Emma Langford, third daughter of Edward Langford (see Langford), BC’s first settler. Langford was manager of...

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