Adams Harbour

Adams Harbour (51˚41'05" 128˚06'50" NW tip of Calvert I, Hakai Passage, S of Bella Bella). Rear Adm Kenneth Frederick Adams (1903–84), born at Victoria, was a cadet at the Royal Naval College of Canada in 1919, while it was briefly (1918–22) located at Esquimalt Dockyard after the calamitous Halifax Hbr explosion of 1917. He was master of one of the luxurious CNR Prince ships on the BC coast in the 1920s but rejoined the RCN in 1928. From 1939 to 1951 he commanded numerous RCN vessels,...

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