Clive Island

Clive Island (48˚42'00" 123˚24'00" Off SE Piers I, NE of Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Sir Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps-Wolley (1854–1918) was an early owner of Piers I. He was supposedly a direct descendant of Robert Clive, the soldier of fortune who amassed great wealth while establishing British military and commercial supremacy in India. Phillipps-Wolley was an army officer, investor and lawyer who first came to BC in the 1880s on big-game hunting expeditions, which he...

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