Briggs Inlet


Briggs Inlet (52˚22'00" 128˚00'00" Between Florence Peninsula and Coldwell Peninsula, N of Bella Bella). Thomas Lasher Briggs (1839–1920), of New Westminster, was a business associate of Capt John Irving, the dominant steamship operator on the Fraser R in the 19th century. He was also Irving’s brother-in-law, having married Mary Irving (1852–1931) in 1874. When Irving’s Pioneer Line was merged with the HBC’s fleet of steamers in 1883 to form the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co,...

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