Chismore Passage

Chismore Passage (54˚03'00" 130˚19'00" Off NE Porcher I, SW of Prince Rupert). Dr George Chismore (1840–1906), a native of NY state, studied medicine in California then joined the Western Union Telegraph Co, 1865–67, as medical officer of an expedition that surveyed an overland telegraph route through northern BC. (The project was cancelled after a cable was successfully laid across the Atlantic.) He then joined the US Army, serving on Tongass I, Alaska, in 1868, as well as in Arizona,...

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