Trottier-Johnson was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, on
June 22, 1841. He emigrated to
Vancouver Island in
1865, spending most of his life in
Port Alberni,
Victoria, and the
Cowichan Region.
1 In
1868, Trotter-Johnston married Letitia Elizabeth Laggatt, and he was later, in
1870, appointed as
a consul for British Columbia, to reside at Victoria for the North German Confederation.
2 In
1872, he established the BC Benevolent Society with Robert Edwin Jackson, a lawyer,
to aid the community’s poor.
3