Chasina Island

Chasina Island (50˚17'00" 125˚13'00" Okisollo Channel, between Quadra I and Maurelle I, N of Campbell R). This First Nation name, its meaning unknown, was chosen by the Union Steamship Co, which often used Okisollo Channel, for one of its vessels. The Chasina was originally built at Glasgow in 1881 as the Santa Cecilia, private pleasure craft of Sir Henry Paget, 4th Marquis of Anglesey. Stories abound of mad parties aboard the yacht and excessive behaviour; Prince Albert Edward, the future...

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