Nelson Island

NELSON ISLAND, 127 sq km, is located at the mouth of JERVIS INLET opposite TEXADA ISLAND in GEORGIA STRAIT. It was named during an 1860 survey for the British naval hero Horatio Nelson. Granite from quarries in Quarry Bay and on nearby Kelly, Fox and HARDY islands was mined from the 1890s to the 1960s and used in the LEGISLATIVE BUILDINGS and on the harbour seawall in VICTORIA, and in many buildings in VANCOUVER and Seattle. Sparsely populated by homesteaders from the 1890s, the island has...

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