Aguilar Point


Aguilar Point (48˚50'00" 125˚08'00" N end of Mills Peninsula, E side of Trevor Channel, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Named in 1861 by RN surveyor Capt George Richards after Henry Aguilar, 2nd master and navigating officer aboard HMS Grappler, a gunboat that served on the BC coast from 1860 to 1863. Aguilar retired with the rank of lt in 1874 and died in 1902. The point was once the site of a Huu-ay-aht (Ohiaht) First Nation village named Tsa-he-tsa. Today a lodge, Aguilar House, is...

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