Ritchie Island

Ritchie Island (54˚20'00" 130˚25'00" Venn Passage, N of Digby I, just W of Prince Rupert), Ritchie Point (54˚20'00" 130˚17'00" N end of Kaien I, Prince Rupert). In 1904–5, as part of the preparations for the coming of the GTP’s transcontinental railway, Joseph Frederick Ritchie (1863–1939) made a survey of Kaien I and the surrounding islands and waterways. Born and educated at Aylmer, Que, he became accredited as both a Dominion and a BC land surveyor, then worked at Lethbridge as a...

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