Keary Rock

Keary Rock (52˚17'00" 128˚38'45" Off SE side of Price I, NW of Bella Bella). Sapper James Keary (c 1826–71), a native of Ireland and a stonemason by trade, was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. He stayed on in BC with his family and received, as did all sappers who remained, a 60-ha military land grant (believed to have been in the Mission area). Keary opened a hotel named Telegraph House, presumably located at New Westminster, where he...

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