Savary Island

SAVARY ISLAND  () is an arc-shaped island ringed by white sand beaches in GEORGIA STRAIT north of POWELL RIVER. It was first mapped by Capt George VANCOUVER in 1792 and possibly named for a French admiral. The original settler, Jack Green, who arrived in the 1880s, was murdered in 1893. After 1910 the island was developed by a VANCOUVER real estate syndicate that sold lots and built a hotel. The island has undergone LOGGING but otherwise...

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