Cunningham Passage


Cunningham Passage (54˚33'00" 130˚27'00" Between Tsimpsean Peninsula and Finlayson I, N of Prince Rupert). Robert Cunningham (1837–1905) was born in Ireland and educated at the Anglican Church Missionary Society college in London. He arrived in BC in 1862 and joined William Duncan’s mission at Metlakatla, but was dismissed about 1866 for being “easily led to sin.” He married a Tsimshian woman, Elizabeth Ryan, and after working for the HBC, 1867–70, and briefly managing the Ft...

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