Borde Island

Borde Island (53˚05'00" 129˚07'00" Off W side of Princess Royal I, S end of Whale Channel). Hippolyte Borde (1856–1942) was born in California and came to Victoria with his family in 1859. He and his brother Auguste (1854–1919) opened a restaurant, the Louvre, in Seattle in 1889 but continued to live in Victoria, where Auguste was a volunteer fire chief and, for 28 years, the city’s water rates collector. Hippolyte is believed to have taken part in the great Victoria old-timers’...

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