Creery Islands


Creery Islands (52˚04'00" 128˚18'00" W side of Brown Narrows, S entrance to Raymond Passage, SW of Bella Bella). Wallace Bourchier Creery (1900–87), of Vancouver, graduated from RCN College in 1914 and married Monica Reid Hutchison (1900–81) in 1922. His first command, in 1928, was the trawler Armentières, and by 1934 he was CO of HMCS Champlain, a destroyer. After a stint as director of naval reserves (1935–37), he became cdr in charge at Halifax. In 1940, Creery was CO of the...

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