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.1)

1)
The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished. 2018: 61.