Eaton Rock

Eaton Rock (52˚34'25" 129˚26'34" SE side of Wright Passage, W of Aristazabal I). Sapper George Eaton was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. He stayed on after the corps disbanded and received a 60-ha military land grant in 1869 in the New Westminster land district. Earlier in the 1860s he was in the goldfields, serving as a temporary police constable at Richfield in 1866 and later as the Cariboo’s mining recorder. In the 1875 and 1898 BC...

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