Tupper Rock


Tupper Rock (49˚20'00" 122˚54'00" In Indian Arm, SW of Racoon I, just NE of Vancouver). Named after politician Charles Hibbert Tupper (1855–1927), son of Conservative PM Charles Tupper. He was born and raised in NS, took a law degree at Harvard Univ and married Janet McDonald (1858–1935), daughter of NS politician James McDonald, at Halifax in 1879. Three years later he was elected MP for Pictou; in 1888, PM Sir John A Macdonald made him minister of Marine and Fisheries, the youngest...

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