Cracroft Island

CRACROFT ISLAND, 233 sq km (40 km long), 100 km northwest of CAMPBELL RIVER between JOHNSTONE STRAIT and KNIGHT INLET, is really 2 islands, E and W Cracroft, barely separated by a gorge that dries at low tide. Cracroft is traditional KWAKWAKA'WAKW territory but has also been the location of several 20th-century settlements: at Growler Cove; at Bones Bay, where the CANADIAN FISHING CO LTD operated a cannery from 1920 to 1949 (see SALMON CANNING); at Port Harvey, site of a hotel; and on the...

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