Burr Rock

Burr Rock (52˚52'00" 128˚42'00" Off Fifer Cove, Laredo Inlet, Princess Royal I). Joseph Burr spent 21 years in Ireland as a soldier with the British Army (62nd Regiment) and was discharged with the rank of sgt-maj. He immigrated to eastern Canada with his wife Elizabeth and family, then managed to secure a position as schoolmaster at Yale, 1866–67. In 1869 he was appointed Yale’s chief constable and postmaster. The actor Raymond Burr, born at New Westminster in 1917, was probably his...

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