Carswell Island

Carswell Island (53˚01'00" 132˚25'00" Entrance to Inskip Channel, NW side of Moresby I, QCI). James Carswell and Thomas Hibben established an early Victoria book and stationery shop in 1858 (after buying out Kierski’s bookstore). Carswell married Elizabeth Ferguson of Glasgow in 1860. In 1866, Hibben bought him out, and two years later Carswell was listed in the Victoria directory as the owner of a “provision store” at Cowichan. T N Hibben & Co became well known to seafaring types as...

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