Brunswick Point

Brunswick Point (49˚32'00" 123˚16'00" E side of Montagu Channel, Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver). The point was named in 1950 in association with nearby Brunswick Mtn, NE of Lions Bay. In 1859–60, RN surveyor Capt George Richards named the mountain and many other features in Howe Sd after the officers and ships involved in the great British naval victory known as the Glorious First of June, which took place in the English Channel in 1794. HMS Brunswick, a 74-gun, 1,665-tonne ship of the line,...

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