Benson Point

Benson Point (49˚47'00" 126˚53'00" N side of Nuchatlitz Inlet, Nootka I, W side of Vancouver I). Probably named by RN surveyor Capt George Richards after his friend Dr Alfred Robson Benson, who was employed as the medical officer at Nanaimo by the HBC, 1857–62, and then by the Vancouver Coal Co, 1862–64. Lt Charles Wilson, secretary of the N American Boundary Commission, visited Nanaimo in 1858 and described Benson as “a great character, never seen without a pipe in his mouth, and his...

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