Chittenden Point


Chittenden Point (53˚58'00" 132˚38'00" Head of Naden Hbr, N side of Graham I, QCI). Capt Newton Henry Chittenden (1840–1925), a native of Connecticut, had been a lawyer and a Union cavalry officer in the Civil War before migrating W in search of adventure. He was hired by the BC government to prepare an extensive report on the QCI, which was published in 1884 (and reprinted a century later). The Victoria Colonist noted that he was “a man of remarkable energy and endurance” and “a...

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