Minstrel Island

MINSTREL ISLAND is a small island at the mouth of KNIGHT INLET on the lower Central Coast. The region is rich in KWAKWAKA'WAKW (Kwakiutl) history, and this particular island is famous as the bustling centre of the lower coast's golden age of LOGGING. From 1907, when the general store and hotel opened, until the 1960s it was a steamer stop and watering hole for hundreds of HANDLOGGERS and GYPPO outfits carving a living out of the maze of islands they called "The Jungle." The Minstrel Island...

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