Lady Trutch Passage


Lady Trutch Passage (52˚21'00" 128˚20'00" Between Lake I and the SW side of Don Peninsula, NW of Bella Bella). Julia Elizabeth Hyde (1827–95), from NY, was living in Oregon in 1855 when she met and married Joseph Trutch (1826–1904, see Trutch I), a British engineer. She was the sister-in-law of John Preston, Oregon’s first surveyor gen, and Trutch was working at the time as Preston’s assistant. The Trutches moved first to Illinois and then, in 1859, to BC, where Joseph played an...

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