Bensins Island

Bensins Island (52˚13'00" 126˚55'00" In S Bentinck Arm, SW of Bella Coola). The name is a corruption of the surname of Archibald Menzies, the RN assistant surgeon and naturalist who accompanied Capt George Vancouver on his 1792–94 PNW explorations (see Menzies Bay). Fur trader Alexander Mackenzie reported in his journal that when he arrived at this location, at the end of his historic 1793 overland journey, he was told by the First Nation inhabitants of the area that white men had recently...

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