Bentinck Island

Bentinck Island (48˚19'00" 123˚32'00" Between Race Rks and extreme S tip of Vancouver I). This feature may have been named after Lord George Bentinck (1802–48), a British Conservative politician and racehorse owner, and a grandson of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (see Bentinck Narrows). The island, reserved in 1860 for a lighthouse that was never built, replaced D’Arcy I as Canada’s only leprosy colony on the W coast. Between 1924 and 1956, when the leprosarium was...

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