Cholberg Point

Cholberg Point (50˚55'00" 127˚44'00" E entrance to Cascade Hbr, Nigei I, off N end of Vancouver I). Seaman and shipbuilder Christian Cholberg (1884–1952) was born in Norway, immigrated to Oregon in the early 1900s and worked in the cannery business in Alaska. With his wife, Astrid Torp, and sons, he came to Victoria about 1912 and built some of BC’s last four-masted windjammers, including the Seiki Maru and S F Tolmie, at Cholberg Shipyard before going bankrupt in 1922. After operating...

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