Carney Point

Carney Point (48˚41'00" 123˚23'00" NE entrance to John Passage, W side of Coal I, NE of Sidney). Alexander Carney or Kâné (b 1845), a Kanaka or pioneer of Hawaiian descent, pre-empted the W half of Coal I and received a Crown grant for the land in 1886. The other half of the island was settled by the Kanaka family of Kama and Mary Kamai (see Kamai Point), who pre-empted their property as early as 1873. Carney married Kamai’s oldest daughter, also Mary, in 1870 and was still farming on...

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