Brown Passage

Brown Passage (54˚20'00" 130˚53'00" Between Tree Nob Group and Melville I, N of Stephens I, W of Prince Rupert). Capt William Brown (d 1795) of the Butterworth, accompanied by two small tenders, the Prince Leboo and the Jackal, was a British trader and former Greenland whaler present on the BC coast in 1792–94. His expedition—the first to investigate the prospects of whaling, as well as fur trading, in the region—was financed by a group of London businessmen led by William Curtis, an...

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