Burnt Island

Burnt Island (53˚13'00" 132˚10'00" In Kagan Bay, Skidegate Inlet, QCI). QCI historian Kathleen Dalzell describes a gory incident that took place on this fortified island when the family of a Haida woman insulted by a suitor named Batons murdered the man’s relatives in revenge and held Batons as a slave. Other relatives then murdered a member of the insulted woman’s family; in retaliation, the miserable Batons was bisected with a crosscut saw on nearby Torrens I. Burnt I was named in 1866...

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