Theodore L. Hearing (d. 1918) Theodore Hearing came north from Vancouver during the gold rush. He was a miner and a fur trader. Starting in 1905 he worked for two years as a special constable for the Royal North-West Mounted Police. In 1918 he was working for White Pass & Yukon Route as a chef on the steamer //Whitehorse.// His wife lived in Vancouver, and he was heading south at the end of the navigation season in 1918. He was drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 61.))