McInnes Island


McInnes Island (52˚15'45" 128˚43'20" Off SW side of Price I, Hecate Str, NW of Bella Bella). Thomas Robert McInnes (1840–1904) was born on Cape Breton I and educated at Harvard and Chicago’s Rush Medical College. He settled with his family in Ont but moved to BC in 1874 and established a medical practice at New Westminster, where he became involved in politics, serving as mayor, 1877–78, and MP, 1878–81. He was also superintendent of what in the old days was known as the BC lunatic...

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