Murphy Range

Murphy Range (53˚00'00" 129˚11'00" N of Surf Inlet, W side of Princess Royal I). Denis Murphy (1870–1947), son of a Cariboo gold miner and roadhouse operator, became the first native-born judge on the Supreme Court of BC in 1909. He was called to the bar in 1895 and elected MLA for Yale, 1900–1902, serving also as provincial secretary. As a commissioner and judge, Murphy investigated, among other issues, illegal Chinese immigration (1910), a S Wellington coal mine disaster that resulted...

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