Claudet Island


Claudet Island (53˚13'00" 132˚09'00" In Kagan Bay, Skidegate Inlet, QCI), Claudet Point (53˚05'00" 129˚07'00" W entrance to Barnard Hbr, NW side of Princess Royal I). Metallurgist and amateur photographer Francis George Claudet (1837–1906) was born at London, England, youngest son of inventor and pioneer photographer Antoine Claudet. He arrived in BC in 1860 as superintendent of the colonial assay office at New Westminster, and the following year was sent to San Francisco to buy equipment...

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