Coffin Island Point

Coffin Island Point (48˚26'00" 123˚23'00" N side of Victoria Hbr, W of Lime Bay, SE end of Vancouver I). First Nation people in the vicinity had used Coffin I, named on Capt Henry Kellett’s 1847 chart, as a cemetery for many years. Bodies were left there in wooden boxes but not buried, sometimes attracting relic hunters, vandals and arsonists. A lurid Victoria Colonist account of an 1867 fire mentions rats, “disturbed in the midst of their horrid meal,” leaping into the water and...

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