Carthew Point

Carthew Point (54˚10'00" 129˚56'00" E side of mouth of Ecstall R, Skeena R, opposite Port Essington). John Alexander Carthew (1857–1914) was born in NS and became a successful BC cannery owner. In 1885 he opened the Comox Hotel, and three years later he married Carrie Eliza Pratt (1859–1937), a native of Illinois, at Victoria. He ran the Wannock Cannery at Rivers Inlet 1887–88, then built the N Pacific Cannery, producer of the Walrus brand of salmon, at Inverness on the Skeena R in...

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