Trutch Island

Trutch Island (53˚06'00" 129˚41'00" Part of the Estevan Group, SE of Banks I). Joseph William Trutch (1826–1904) was born and educated in England but spent his childhood on his father’s Jamaican estates. Trained as an engineer, he immigrated in 1849 to San Francisco and later worked as an assistant to John Preston, Oregon’s first surveyor gen. In 1855 he married Julia Elizabeth Hyde (1827–95), Preston’s sister-in-law, who was originally from NY. The Trutches moved first to Illinois,...

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