Read Island

READ ISLAND is one of the Discovery Islands, a tightly massed archipelago at the north end of GEORGIA STRAIT between VANCOUVER ISLAND and the mainland. It is named for a British naval officer, William Viner Read. First occupied by Coast Salish people (see SALISHAN FIRST NATIONS), it attracted loggers and the first settlers in the late 1880s. Its remoteness seemed to make the island a haven for flamboyant characters. Foremost among them was a former Dakota Territory police chief, Edgar Wilmot...

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