Barnsley Shoal


Barnsley Shoal (50˚16'00" 125˚12'00" In Okisollo Channel, E of the N end of Quadra I, N of Campbell R). John Barnsley (1860–1924), from Birmingham, UK, a gunsmith by trade, immigrated to BC in 1881 and established a sporting goods store in Victoria with John R Collister. In 1887, at Victoria, he married his partner’s sister, Elizabeth Jane Collister (1867–1952), who was born in Australia and came to Canada with her family in 1875. Barnsley later worked in the cannery trade and became...

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