Coal Island

Coal Island (48˚41'00" 123˚22'00" Off NE end of Saanich Peninsula, N of Victoria). Joseph Pemberton, who worked as a surveyor for the HBC in the early 1850s and later became surveyor gen of the colony of Vancouver I, produced an early map of S Vancouver I in 1855 that named this island and identified coal on its E side. In the 1940s and ’50s the property was owned by Capt Fred Lewis (see Lewis Bay).

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