Portland Island

PORTLAND ISLAND, at 1.82 sq km one of the smaller GULF ISLANDS, lies just east of Swartz Bay south of SALTSPRING ISLAND. It is named for a 19th-century British warship. Once home to HAWAIIAN settlers, including William NAUKANA, it was owned from the late 1920s to 1937 by Gen Frank "One-Arm" Sutton, a British soldier of fortune who raised racehorses there. The province bought it in 1958 to give to Princess Margaret in commemoration of the BC centennial. Three years later she returned ownership...

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