Barnes Shoal

Barnes Shoal (53˚42'00" 132˚58'00" At entrance to Port Louis, NW Graham I, QCI). Master mariner Charles Barnes (1860–1926), from England, worked on the BC coast for Canada’s Dept of Marine and Fisheries and served on a series of lighthouse tenders. He married Rose Pfeiffer (1865–1935), a native of Germany, at Victoria in 1892. Barnes was 2nd officer on CGS Quadra and then capt of CGS Newington, acquired in 1908. He was also the first skipper of CGS Estevan, built in 1912. The shoal was...

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