Casanave Passage

Casanave Passage (53˚04'00" 129˚11'00" Between Ashdown I and NW side of Princess Royal I, Caamaño Sd). Alexis Carni Casanave (1845–1928), a rancher and miner, was born in Basses-Pyrénées, France, and came to Victoria in 1862 after spending several years in San Francisco. He wandered the province for gold, then bought 4 ha of John Tod’s Oak Bay property in 1875 and turned his hand to dairy and mixed farming. In 1884, at Victoria, he married Elizabeth Coigdarripe (1861–1931), who had...

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