Foster Rocks

Foster Rocks (51˚42'00" 128˚05'00" N end of Kwakshua Channel, S side of Hakai Passage, S of Bella Bella). William Wasborough “Billy” Foster, CMG (1875–1954), was a British engineer who came to Canada and worked for the CPR. In 1910 he was appointed BC’s deputy minister of Public Works and in 1913 elected a Conservative MLA for Vancouver I. Foster was a brigadier in WWI (DSO with two bars, MC), then president of Pacific Engineers Ltd after the war. He was also appointed president of...

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