Topping Islands

Topping Islands (52˚40'00" 131˚40'00" In Darwin Sd, just NW of Lyell Bay, E of Moresby I, QCI). Eugene Sayre Topping (1844–1917), a native of NY, was the founder and first mayor of the city of Trail. He began his working life as a seaman, became a railroad labourer, then spent a number of years in Wyoming, building roads and running a boat on Yellowstone Lk. By 1890 he had moved to BC and was serving as Nelson’s deputy mining recorder when Joe Moris and Joe Bourgeois recorded a number of...

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