Hazel Shoal

Hazel Shoal (52˚37'00" 129˚17'00" SE of Moore Is, W of Aristazabal I). Cpl Henry W Hazel was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. He was a medical orderly, working under Dr John Seddall, the detachment’s medical officer, and came to BC in 1859 with the main body of men aboard the Thames City. Hazel was ridiculed in the ship’s newspaper (The Emigrant Soldier’s Gazette & Cape Horn Chronicle) and nicknamed Matilda for his effeminate...

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